Author Topic: Singapore schools punish cheeky student bloggers (Read 2019 times)

Foxy Brown · « **on:** September 27, 2005, 05:35:28 PM »

Singapore schools have begun a clampdown on students who insult teachers in online journals by punishing them with suspensions, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

TheQuickening · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2005, 05:45:53 PM »

Whoa.

I'm all for punishments and enforcing discipline and all that jazz, but isn't this going just a weeeeeeeeeeeeee bit too far? I mean, they're just blogs. How would the authourities be able to find out which student wrote which blog (assuming that the student didn't identify themselves outright on the site)? Wouldn't that require hacking their identities from the servers or something?

daigong · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2005, 01:39:16 AM »

And how about this:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000416202

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Singapore Imprisons Two Bloggers For Racist Comments

October 7, 2005 9:23 a.m. EST

Niladri Sekhar Nath - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent

Singapore (AHN) - On Friday, Singapore puts two men behind bars for making racist remarks over the Internet against minority Malays.

The city-state's administration has invoked sedition laws inherited from British colonial rule. Twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Koh has been sentenced to a month in prison, while 25-year-old Nicholas Lim was fined, and jailed for one day.

Both men posted comments on their personal websites or blogs attacking the mostly-Muslim ethnic Malay community in Singapore.

Koh posted objectionable comments against Islam's holy site of Mecca in his online journal.

Look out Mal!

TheQuickening · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2005, 01:40:22 AM »

Harsh, but considering how strict Singapore is when it comes to enforcing it's laws, not entirely surprising.

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2005, 01:47:23 AM »

Quote from: daigong

And how about this:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000416202

How about it?

shadowstar · « **Reply #5 on:** October 08, 2005, 06:02:27 AM »

Quote from: TheQuickening

Whoa. I'm all for punishments and enforcing discipline and all that jazz, but isn't this going just a weeeeeeeeeeeeee bit too far? I mean, they're just blogs. How would the authourities be able to find out which student wrote which blog (assuming that the student didn't identify themselves outright on the site)? Wouldn't that require hacking their identities from the servers or something?

besides that, haven't they heard of something called privacy? it's someone's blog, and they can pretty much say whatever they want on it.