Looks like Singaporeans are getting to be as vocal as Malaysians. Awesomeness with marshmallows!

A group of students protested at Speakers Corner recently on the censorship of campus media. Click here and here for more. Also, click here for a proposal on Internet Freedom for Singapore.

I also stumbled upon this good blog by Cherian George. Of freedom of expression online, he says:

Freedom of expression, although recognised as a right in Singapore’s Constitution, has never really been held in high regard here. It is treated as a highly conditional right, which in effect means that it is not a right at all, but a kind of privilege or favour extended by the state to certain types of communication that meets whatever standards it chooses to impose. In Singapore, unlike liberal societies, there is certainly no wish to provide “freedom for the thought we hate” (to borrow the title of a new book on the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis).

For more, click here.

When the Speakers Corner, first started, a few friends in Singapore said that it was just to appease those with dissenting views. When JB Jeyaretnam recently passed away, a friend of mine said, “You know, at least Lim Kit Siang can see some fruits of his labour. Jeyaretnam was shouting in the wind.”

Did anyone hear?

Will there be a change in Singapore? Or has the change already begun?