it's a common theme among "smart-cities" marketers and cybersecurity wonks to cite Singapore (and other exotic one-off social structures) as role models for eve

it's a common theme among "smart-cities" marketers and cybersecurity wonks to cite Singapore (and other exotic one-off social structures) as role models for everyone else. Singapore likes to paint itself as open and its locals even believe it (the reference for contrast is Johor Baru or Medan which are ofc hard to compare). But it's just the effect of their own propaganda and brain washing (heavy censorship in film and art). When I lived there (90ies) you could sill buy a cane in the corner shop who were sold with the sole purpose of whipping and conditioning their kids.