PM Lee not in reverse gear during Videoblogging Week 2006

What? Misleading headline? Orh. Channel Newsasia taught me how to do that. I learn from the best, see?

Podcasting is not banned! I say again, podcasting is not banned! All youse liberal western press mongrel types, stay! Heel!

Channel News Misleading HeadlineThe Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Dr Balaji Sadasivan, wasn’t quoted properly, I reckon, just as he wasn’t when he spoke about HIV/AIDS and homosexual activity.

So what is the legal status of podcasting during the election period? Dunno? Need help? The world must be a terrible place if Mr Miyagi is to be relied upon to clarify matters. But for the sake of the bewildered populace, I shall try:

Podcasting about the elections during the gazetted election period is not allowed, because it does not fall under the positives in the list of positives mandated under the Parliamentary Elections Act section something something.

This effectively makes it a negative, meaning it is ILLEGAL! Comprende? Non? OK. Say you want to walk down the street from your nice flat in Bishan, down the road to Junction 8. You’d think you could without any legal ramifications. But wait! Look up the statute books! Is ‘walking down the street from your nice flat in Bishan, down the road to Junction 8′ in any list of positives in any Act of Parliament? No, right?

ILLEGAL!

You’ll be glad I helped you out here, and I understand how difficult this legal reasoning stuff is sometimes. After all, I did drop out of law school.

But it’s not election period yet, so mrbrown and myself have resolved to podcasting and videoblogging up a storm, and are participating in Videoblogging Week 2006.

Video Podcast: The WTF! Show Preview Number 1 (Quicktime MOV, Filesize: 11.5mb, Time: 00:01:27)

Subscribe:[feed][iTunes]

*for the sake of really clarifying matters, PM Lee is in 4th gear, ok?

Technorati Tags: , , , ,

Facebook Comments Box

Posted

in

by

Comments

15 responses to “PM Lee not in reverse gear during Videoblogging Week 2006”

  1. mrbrownmiyagi Mr Brown and Mr Miyagi on vlogging during election period.

  2. Political podcasting banned during Singapore elections…

    This briefcase may be all you need to spell trouble // Photo by Irish Typepad
    Anggra tipped me off to what I see as one of the most recent eye-raising measures against the use of new technologies on the Internet during hustings in Singapore. Channel…

  3. Blips Avatar

    Pile of crap has nothing to do with the v1d30bl0991ngw33k2oo6 (Yup i will prevent the tag spelled right)

  4. Blips Avatar

    Pile of crap has nothing to do with the v1d30bl0991ngw33k2oo6 (Yup i will prevent the tag spelled right)

  5. Lincoln Avatar
    Lincoln

    Does that mean bloging on political matters also cannot ?

  6. Lincoln Avatar
    Lincoln

    Does that mean bloging on political matters also cannot ?

  7. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Blips, jumping the gun and shooting your mouth has nothing to do with Videobloggingweek2006 either. Next time, read the whole post and check out the context. That’s what hyperlinks are for, Minnesota boy! (Hey, look, I spelled the tag right!)

  8. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Blips, jumping the gun and shooting your mouth has nothing to do with Videobloggingweek2006 either. Next time, read the whole post and check out the context. That’s what hyperlinks are for, Minnesota boy! (Hey, look, I spelled the tag right!)

  9. theorycast.06 :: LifeStory @ Home…

    Watch theorycast06 :: LifeStory @ Home (Quicktime .mov/15mb/6min).
    Alternative formats also available or subscribe to theorycast in iTunes.
    Today marks the beginning of VideoBloggingWeek2006, which goes from April 3rd to 9th. It’s a meme firs…

  10. DK Avatar

    So how? we cannot step out of our house during election period? So stay at home until election over huh?

    wait…. is staying at home during election period inside the statute books?? NO!!!

    Then how? Stay outside your house? also not in the statute books!!!!

    We are in deep trouble. Once they declare election start, the entire Singapore population is breaking the law. Hope Changi Prison has enough space….

  11. DK Avatar

    So how? we cannot step out of our house during election period? So stay at home until election over huh?

    wait…. is staying at home during election period inside the statute books?? NO!!!

    Then how? Stay outside your house? also not in the statute books!!!!

    We are in deep trouble. Once they declare election start, the entire Singapore population is breaking the law. Hope Changi Prison has enough space….

  12. lunatic_fringe Avatar

    I do not think anyone will see the insides of Changi Prison during the election period. Mainly because by the time the police trace your website/blog from your hosting coy/internet service provider/back to your dynamic ip address back to your pc, elections may be over. Even if the SPF manages to trace and know it’s you (or any of your family members who can spell “podcast” that have access to your PC) then, they can probably only hold you in lockup at the police station before transferring u to Queenstown remand prison.

    So, literally, you will not see the inside of Changi Prison (during the 9 days General Elections campaigning period). But if the SPF decides to do the above, then after the due process of the law, one may get to go in (but Changi tends to be for the longer term inmates rather than for those who commit crimes against PEA).

  13. lunatic_fringe Avatar

    I do not think anyone will see the insides of Changi Prison during the election period. Mainly because by the time the police trace your website/blog from your hosting coy/internet service provider/back to your dynamic ip address back to your pc, elections may be over. Even if the SPF manages to trace and know it’s you (or any of your family members who can spell “podcast” that have access to your PC) then, they can probably only hold you in lockup at the police station before transferring u to Queenstown remand prison.

    So, literally, you will not see the inside of Changi Prison (during the 9 days General Elections campaigning period). But if the SPF decides to do the above, then after the due process of the law, one may get to go in (but Changi tends to be for the longer term inmates rather than for those who commit crimes against PEA).

  14. mercermachine Avatar

    Wait, so i can’t go to j8 anymore? Serangoon Gardens can?

  15. mercermachine Avatar

    Wait, so i can’t go to j8 anymore? Serangoon Gardens can?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *