I currently can't publish comments on my blog, so making a new blog post in order to troubleshoot and see if it is a glitch or censorship (please help by making a comment to see if it gets through). This is the comment I was trying to post, in relation to Amos Yee's latest blog post:
So, Amos is now also in trouble for "inciting racial feelings" and "harassment." Most disconcertingly his views on pedophilia appear to be criminalized in Singapore, which goes to show it is probably the most draconian nation on earth against MAP speech.
So for the 4 new charges I have, 2 of them are for my views on pdfs (1 charge is for the videos I made in 2017. The other is for the blog post I wrote recently). They got me under POHA, the protection against harassment act. My views were apparently so disturbing to some people, someone filed a police report on it, and they considered my words 'harassment'. And so I was charged. To break the law for this, as long as you say something that causes people 'alarm', you have broken the law. The punishment for these charges isn't too much, just a fine that can be converted to about a week or so of a prison sentence each.
Here is a blog post he wrote recently which might be the one he is referring to?
https://www.amosyee.org/14-year-old.htm
It certainly does not "harass" anyone in any reasonable sense. If this is criminal speech in Singapore then they have gone way more insane in their crackdown on speech than the UK and anywhere else I know of and would pretty much make MAP activism illegal there.
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