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At least in HK you can still protest. In Singapore you’d be put into jail for public disturbance.
by majia 7y ago
At least in HK you can still protest. In Singapore you’d be put into jail for public disturbance.
- digianarchist 7y agoSingapore is still a democracy albeit a deeply flawed one.
- chvid 7y agoIf I was a professional cyberpunk I would still go for Hong Kong over Singapore.
- chvid 7y agoAnd PS: Singapore is the big inspiration for modern day China.
- justicezyx 7y agoThis is definitely overblown. There is official training program for government officials from China to Singapore. Probably inspired China's confident rejection of western government model and insist on strict top-down control. But China's inspiration is from USA. Everything, literally, everything is set to use USA as the inspirational counterpart. I mean, literally, everything. Name anything you can think of, I can tell a story how the daily life has the USA reference or influence.
- cryptonector 7y agoExamples?
- i_am_proteus 7y agoI choose to name: lack of de facto individual rights and coincident lack of independent judiciary.