Free speech is good, but calling singapore a dictatorship,
that many are saying in the comments is not a true statement. A dictatorship is
a country under the rule of a single person or party, with no tolerance of any
other ruling ideologies, yes there is a law against speaking out against the
government and religions in singapore, but that is for a whole other reason
than muting the people and making sure the party is at the top. I am myself, I
have no bias towards any ruling party for I am unable to vote.
In 1965, there
were racial riots between the prominent races in singapore at the time, this
was due to a few uneducated or badly educated troublemaking people back in the
day, they spread false information and accused certain races of things, causing
hatred to brew in their racial groups. A huge riot was a result of that, many
people died, yes not as much as wars and some other riots in other countries,
but if a country had the ability to prevent this from happening again, would
they not?
If a riot ensued in Singapore in modern times this would mean alot of
problems, Singapore is a international port, many countries including the US,
China, India, Japan, Canada and many others use our port ofr entrepot trade, if
Singapore ceases to function, all countries would be affected, not only us. At
the cost of slight free speech, against racial disagreements and political
disagreements to ensure stability of the relations between the people in our
country, I feel that it is an ok trade off, instead of the sadly,
dysfunctionality of some parts of countries with Free Speech, such as the US.
Again, many people are allowed to have many of their own opinions, just that
the opinions that could cause potential trouble in Singapore are silenced with
a limit. Singapore still allows for people to talk out against the government
for inequality and problems, as long as its viable to the other groups and
societies in the country. Singapore has also many parties, but one party has
been ruling for a long while due to their immense popularity with our people, there
is doubt in the party controlling the votes as their votes seem to be
decreasing in the past few years, as younger voters, uninfluenced by the
party's past deeds have been voting.
The only thing I have against the current
party is how they convicted "communists" without much solid evidence,
as a push for independence from the British. Feel free to discuss about this
topic with me, calmly.