FC: More on Singapore political website "Sintercom" closing

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: Randy Kluver <icmrk () nus edu sg>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
Subject: RE: Singapore political website closes after government demands
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:41:13 +0800
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Declan,
The post is a bit misleading.  Sintercom clearly stated that the reason for
closing was not because of the registration requirement, as one of the
stories that is referenced indicates.  They had already done that some time
back.  Tan Chong Kee, the founder, had recently been named to a new media
watchdog council which was evidently going to take much more time.  The
decision to close was agreed to by all eight directors, I am assuming
because no one had time to run it.

In addition, the Think Centre and the Sintercom community are two different
entities.  By putting the think centre article highlighted, it confuses the
issue. In addition, the Think Centre also closed, at least partially, I
believe, because of the fact that its founder, James Gomez, moved to Bangkok
to accept a job there.

Not that it makes much difference to civic discourse, but the tone of the
post makes it seem like draconian action on the part of the government,
which I don't believe is really the case.

Randy Kluver, Ph.D.
Information and Communication Management Programme
National University of Singapore
AS 3, #04-16
Singapore 117570
(65) 559-3141

fax (65) 779-4911




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