Talk:Internet censorship in Singapore

HIV travel website
Is 'draconian' on the HIV travel website too extreme a word? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.55.212 (talk) 03:33, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

List of websites
Is it really useful to have a "list of banned websites... based on user attempts", with no reference to secondary sources? Does it add anything to the article, which already notes that pornography is censored, and most of these websites are pornographic. Shrigley (talk) 21:06, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The list is unnecessary. We should just say "many pornography sites are blocked" and then mention any notable non-pornography sites that are blocked (HIV information, anti-Islam, etc). (Heroeswithmetaphors)   talk  05:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Gambling Website Censorship
How about the new +100 online gambling websites which are banned starting from February 2015? Any comments? --Never stop exploring (talk) 16:59, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

News article about this topic: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/singapore-blocks-access-to-overseas-gambling-websites-656794

Sample URL which will not work from a Singapore IP address: http://www.ibcbet.com/ --Never stop exploring (talk) 16:59, 23 April 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅. I added some information to the article based on this reference. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 07:57, 26 April 2015 (UTC).

List of disabled Websites by the MDA? / Double standard
As of today, Sunday, 3. Mai 2015 20:00 the Webpage of The Real Singapore (TRS) socio-political website is no longer available.

At: therealsingapore.com you can read the following statement: "The Real Singapore has been ordered to disable access to all our online services by the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore."

Added this already to the related articles:
 * Alex_Tan
 * Sedition_Act_%28Singapore%29

Here is also the MDA article about this case: MDA Media Statement on TRS.

Wonder if there are more websites in Singapore which are taken down by the Media Development Authority? --Never stop exploring (talk) 13:18, 3 May 2015 (UTC).


 * Actually TheRealSingapore isn't technically banned in Singapore, which implies you can still visit the site from outside Singapore. Rather, the site owners have lost the license to run the site altogether from Singapore, which is different. "Site cannot viewed in Singapore" vs "Cannot run the site from Singapore". Careful wording is needed so as not to confuse between the two. Zhanzhao (talk) 01:15, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your input Zhanzhao. I think (after some sleep), the above case fits more the topic of a Double standard, since the Media Development Authority (MDA) does not really care about what: Straits Times Online Mobile Print (STOMP) is doing. Here for e.g. more than 24K people singed an online petition to STOP the STOMP, but nothing happend. I think maintaining a list like: List of websites blocked in the United Kingdom or Web blocking in the United Kingdom adopted to Singapore might not much sense (at the moment) and in this case. --Never stop exploring (talk) 03:56, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * How about adding the topic of Double standard to Media_Development_Authority? Not too sure about the "local culture in Singapore", but this sounds obvious to me. --Never stop exploring (talk) 04:01, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Another (maybe related) topic: File sharing in the United Kingdom also catched my attention, it's less political and I can contribute with my technical knowledge. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. So far I added Dallas Buyers Club and Odex's actions against file-sharing, Legal_issues_with_BitTorrent. Thanks! --Never stop exploring (talk) 03:56, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Circumvention software
Added this new section, because my last contribution to bypass the censorship was reverted with the comment: WP:NOTMANUAL I was looking at other countries internet censorship articles and found some with a separate section 'circumvention software'. I added the globally available software and also a customized solution GOM which is customized for the usage in Singapore. Please do not revert these details, I agree WP is not a manual, but there is no need to revert this information rather than sharing with everyone. --Never stop exploring (talk) 02:24, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you share the other countries internet censorship articles with the 'circumvention software' sections? I removed a link here before and elsewhere, not due to WP:NOTMANUAL, but because it was inserted by some guy spamming information of some particular software/service, practically using Wikipedia as an advertising platform. The writeup you included for this article is okay, I'm more interested in the other articles where you saw the 'circumvention software' sections. Thanks in advance! Zhanzhao (talk) 03:34, 19 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Zhanzhao oh, I did not see that before, was browsing in the article of Thailand: Internet censorship in_Thailand or Internet_censorship_in_Cuba is also a good read. Also a general article here: Internet censorship circumvention which I added now. Thanks for your heads up :) --Never stop exploring (talk) 05:07, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, will read up in detail later but the writeup looks fine. Guess I was just (unduly) worried about wikipedia being abused as an advertising platform but does not seem to be the case on the articles you posted. Carry on the good work! Zhanzhao (talk) 10:40, 19 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I think we need to be a little careful here. The information in this article should be specific to Singapore. There are other articles for more general information. The material in the lead of the new section on "Opposition to Internet censorship" is entirely general and makes me uneasy. The material on "Circumvention software" is a mix of general information and information specific to Singapore. As such it seems OK to me, but I wouldn't like to see a lot more general information added. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 11:05, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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forced closure of the online citizen
We should talk about the forced closure of the online citizen here as part of Internet censorship. --Haaaa (talk) 09:20, 19 September 2021 (UTC)