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As a Singaporean now in UK, I guess the POFMA jurisdiction no longer applies to your pieces of writing, or anything that originates from outside the country ?

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What’s most telling is not what the POFMA correction says, it’s what it doesn’t say: the Government doesn’t deny the persecution of the journalist from beginning to end, the court cases, the blatant corruption of its judiciary by its executive… the Government of Singapore in essence admits that all these human rights violations are correct.

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Unlike the liberal west, one need to have his/her facts substantiated else the laws of Singapore will come down hard regardless of whether you are Singaporean or foreigner.

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Really don't know what they are afraid of. This is one of the most stable, most successful governments in the world. It has won a great deal of legitimacy all over, especially where it counts most, with its citizens. But it acts like it is one step ahead of widespread revolt.

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Strange that you didn't also receive a POFMA for the article below John. Keep up the courageous work, a great response to the POFMA team!

https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/australian-woman-fight-prove-singapore-fraud

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We must have a name and an index of this form of “shadow” organised crime -- a very gross form of shadow banning.

It will play a not insignificant role in Generative AI/ChatGPT. In fact the the regularly renewed index can be updated by sentiment via Generative AI itself.

A precious measure of why or why not weaponization and how much of so should be norm. For what were once #zerocrime villages/communities capable of evolutionary emergence in Nusantara.

Reflect on https://youtu.be/NuZujx-LMfg especially the corollary of Min 20.

So that Indonesia and more are not misguided into such a response.

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