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- This blog carries summary abstracts of Yawning Bread essays, with space for comments.
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August
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- Cinema: Singapore Dreaming
- Selling immigration
- On the front bench
- Nice pineapple tarts
- How NOT to succeed in the conventions business
- Immigration, public opinion and seizable offences
- Taxi problem is not a taxi problem
- A rally for relationship equality
- Apathetic youth, idols, buzz and a paedophile
- We the citizens - TalkingCock in Parliament
- PAP wins by a landslide
- Mahathir's mirror
- Our trees
- Singapore government takes hostages from foreign p...
- Clown show from our state censors
- The fear and lunacy that is arts censorship
- The constipated MDA
- Political apoplexy and police priorities
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2 comments:
I refer to the comment in the article stating that authors should be able to be free of censorship "within the boundaries of the law - hence pornography is a no-no". I would like to add that I feel that the boundaries of the law are ill-defined and should be removed entirely. What is wrong with adults viewing pornography? I have seen, and have had sex with, real people. Why can't I look at pictures of real people having sex? I already know what they are doing! In fact, society would be better off without the MDA. Our tax dollars would not support the censors, Singapore could attract filmmakers and writers with its freedom in this region, and I could watch satellite television with closed-captioning for the deaf. Someday, the MDA will be eliminated. The censors SHOULD be scared, because they will be laid off when that day comes, and their censoring experience will likely not be helpful in securing new jobs. I find the censors offensive, and plan to depict them with art in an offensive manner. I doubt my artwork of them would be approved.
"Should the MDA act on behalf of these institutions? Shouldn't it be the other way around -- that the institutions make their complaints against the picture, then they step in to mediate? So if I find the depiction of GLBT in some media objectionable, they should ask them to remove it as well?"
In principle, I agree with you on this point wholeheartedly.
Unfortunately, I think our civil servants do not see it that way. Their mentality is that they cannot have ANY complaints against them from any source at all because it will reflect badly on them and their bosses. So, it is better to be kiasu & kiasi than to be bold.
Honestly, if Singapore is to make a quantum leap to get ahead, the mindset of our civil servants must change.
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