Singaporean viewpoint on censorship

[OOI Chuin Nee]

There was a nice little snippet in Wired 3.08 (p. 34) - apparently there
was an article in The New Paper, a daily in Singapore which quoted the
Singaporean minister for information and the arts as saying:

"We continue to censor our films, books, magazines, and television
programmes, not because censorship can ever be 100 percent effective, not
even 20 percent effective, but because the act of censorship is itself
symbolic and an affirmation to young and old of the values that we hold as
a society."



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