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- Yawning Bread Sampler
- This blog carries summary abstracts of Yawning Bread essays, with space for comments.
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February
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- A new world after this economic crisis
- Beautiful, wonderful creatures make disappearing act
- The great hunt: One year on
- Reply from Catholic Youth Apostolate's ghost writer
- Preachers, pests and usurpers
- On community moderation of internet content
- The hermitage is no solution
- Sec-gen issues open invitation to participate in A...
- Is a general election this year now confirmed?
- Nathan fluffs his reserves explanation
- Naked straitjackets
- 366 detained without trial in last 5 years
- Like Singapore, Dubai is crashing
- Female teacher admits to sex with boy aged 15
- Re: suggested career path for Madam Ho Ching
- Ho Ching had 10-year term at Temasek; leaves early
- No need to know how the President uses his second ...
- Opposition unity still illusory
- Behind Today's Lui story
- Six men charged for sex with boy aged 15
- A political tourist in Kuala Lumpur
- Shield us good, mock us bad, says Lui
- Time for the Ox to heed the lute
- Half-million is the new benchmark
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5 comments:
Alex,
I watched the repeat telecast (main motivation to catch Kate Winslet), and Sean Penn's speech was NOT left intact. I would never have known Mediacorp censored his (and Lance Black's) speech if not for reading your blog post. I am disturbed and saddened.
I see YB's friends anticapated the censorship and so stayed to watch the repeat telecast. Then when they spot it, they make sure everybody knows about it and YB makes sure people see the banned parts on youtube. There's something refreshingly pro-active about gay activism in singapore. Well done!
I have written to the speakers to inform them about which parts of their speeches were censored by Singapore authorities. This will leave a lasting impression about Singapore in their minds. Maybe someone else can write to the film companies to warn them about doing business in Singapore. No wonder Westerners think Singapore is part of China. It's not that they aren't smart in geography; it's starting to confuse me too. We are a single party state with lots of censorship too; hard to tell apart from a communist country for sure.
Did they cut out the Milk clip from the hilarious Franco-Rogen segment? The Milk clip featured, scandalously, two men kissing! (namely Penn and Franco, that was part of the comedy.)
Yes, they did
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