Dear Mr Alex Au,
I applaud and support your call for a BloggersÂ’ meeting to get
together and organize a submission to a government-linked body on a
review of regulatory framework over the internet:
http://www.yawningbread.org/pages_temp/bloggersmeetingdex.htm
Yawning Bread has been a model for other blogs for its reliable,
independent and asute commentaries on local social and political
affairs over the year. You have been most unflinching and satirical
at times in your criticism of the establishment which is hardly
seen in the mainstream medium.
Cyberspace is often seen as the last frontier for free speech in
Singapore with very little government influence or control. This is
so because blogs are often run by citizens with no political
affliations like yourself or by anonymous individuals who are
protected by the cloak of anonymity. However, when political blogs
are run by individuals with links to the establishment, then we
should take what it publishes with a pinch of salt as the contents
may invariably by tainted by self-censorship and
propagandary.
I would like to call to your attention a particular political and
social blog - The Online Citizen (TOC) whose credibility as a
non-government free-wheeling blog is in serious doubt because of
its intimate links with the establishment.
Click below to read rest of article:
http://wayangparty.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/open-letter-to-mr-alex-au-of-yawning-bread/
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