Another article...on sggirls...
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>> Showcase of 'Oriental Beauties'
Objectionable website on Singapore girls by Chu Yin Chan (Ms)
At first glance, the website www.sggirls.com seems to be showcasing Oriental beuaties but, beneath that facade of innocence, it is anything but decent.
Most of the photographs are of Singaporean girls, as indicated by the website's address. I believe many of the photographs were published without their owners' knowledge.
Most of these photographs came out of good, clean fun, but the comments below some of them carry sexual innuendos; others - featuring male fantasies - are outright obscene.
The pictures are even divided into categories, including one of girls in school uniforms. Even these photographs of students in their uniforms are not spared the risque remarks, and risk damaging the schools' reputation.
Worse still, innocent victims are getting their names tarnished and are being subjected to emotional and mental harm - that is, if they are aware that their photographs are being scrutinised by people all over the world. Such audacity and impudence cannot be tolerated.
Although every individual has a role to play in protecting his rights and preventing invasion of privacy, it must be noted that many of the photographs are ordinary, everyday ones and may have been put up elsewhere on the Internet - if not by the subjects themselves, then by friends who had no intention whatsoever of causing harm to them.
It is the abusers who have so odiously re-published the photographs on sggirls, together with lewd remarks.
Ever since the Internet has established, there has been much controversy regarding its pros and cons. As much as I enjoy logging on, some people have turned what was meant to benefit the human race into a forebidding realm - and they have taken it a step too far this time.
The development of digital cameras has made it easier for pictures to be uploaded on the Internet. Not surprisingly, mankind has yet again found a way to misuse the work of geniuses.
Technology is constantly advancing and the Internet is no longer simply a virtual world providing information and entertainment.
It is, in fact, and extension of our real world, and it is high time that laws are extended to this new boundary.
I am sure the authorities would not be very happy to have people around the world stumbling onto www.sggirls.com and going, "Oh! So this is what Singaporean girls are like."
I hope the authorities will act on this matter.
--Extracted from THE STRAITS TIMES FORUM H10, FRI MAY 13, 2005.
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At the behest of forumites who wish to know what this article is about
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so how?? no more sggirls??
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oredi discussed until leng leng long long in sggirls.com forum liao
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=131470
we've been mentioned 3 times this week~
so much free publicity......high traffice.......slowwwwww -
no more sggirls, you think this forum will still be around?
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I am wondering why are we in the limelight all of sudden.
More forum postings in ST will come...and Lianhe Zaobao/Wanbao...that's for sure...
I just feel the writer is biased in her opinions. In the sense that mankind has found a way to misuse the work of geniuses, we've done it time and again. Why isn't she talking about the end of nukes and atomic bombs and to stop further usage of military equipment? Geniuses at work to create them. Yet, we are using them in reasons which one side fervently believes as the correct and just way to do so, and the other party believing that such weapons are used in an attempt to clamp them down and therefore, are EVIL.
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Couldn't locate that threadOriginally posted by FireIce:oredi discussed until leng leng long long in sggirls.com forum liao
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=131470
we've been mentioned 3 times this week~
so much free publicity......high traffice.......slowwwwww -
start a sgahguas lorOriginally posted by Takumi2eLimit:so how?? no more sggirls?? 
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She has issues with her psyche I believe.Perhaps she's one of the conservatives that Bush might have happily embraced.Originally posted by deathscythe99:I am wondering why are we in the limelight all of sudden.
More forum postings in ST will come...and Lianhe Zaobao/Wanbao...that's for sure...
I just feel the writer is biased in her opinions. In the sense that mankind has found a way to misuse the work of geniuses, we've done it time and again. Why isn't she talking about the end of nukes and atomic bombs and to stop further usage of military equipment? Geniuses at work to create them. Yet, we are using them in reasons which one side fervently believes as the correct and just way to do so, and the other party believing that such weapons are used in an attempt to clamp them down and therefore, are EVIL.
So?Society and civilisation has always adapted and moved on.What we do not need is more legislation which in SG, tends to be over-reaching and zealous.We need people to take ownership of themselves.If you disagree with something, then do not view them.There is a dark side to everything, you cannot eradicate the bad without jeopardising the goodness of the light.
My advice to the lady, sympathies to you, but I'm sure you know that this is the reality.Live with it and don't give people a reason to smear you online.I just believe that we cannot always regulate everything, and when you raise this issue in comparison with more pressing problems, this is just a speed bump on the road of civilisation's journey.
Raise the spectre of war and cyber-terrorism, which cause real damage to nations, rather than gripe on small matters of integrity and "face".The reality is that fantasy is a part of the human psychological construct and a fetish can be placed on any object.
The photos are not obscene, but are you trying to push for legislation and censorhsip of a person's thoughts by banning a photo-hosting site?Sorry but this does not cut, not even by a tiny margin.Maybe you could get the Mod's co-operation if the photos were of an obscene nature, but let me reiterate that comments are part and parcel of a web gallery.
You cannot and will not control the thoughts of people viewing.Publishing photos captured in the public domain is legal, especially if its not a exclusive photo shoot or and event where model release forms are needed.
Live and let live.You cannot control the human mind, only educate them.Pressing for legislation over something as inane as this only sets our social progress back negatively and creates unwanted attention in the global media, especially with the A*Star and the Shanmugum issue already in the global eye. -
Good point.
So?Society and civilisation has always adapted and moved on.What we do not need is more legislation which in SG, tends to be over-reaching and zealous.We need people to take ownership of themselves.If you disagree with something, then do not view them.There is a dark side to everything, you cannot eradicate the bad without jeopardising the goodness of the light.
Why whine about oppressive controls, Spore being boring, etc and in the next breath, complain when such things crop up? Be prepared for the new age and more diversity....... -
The lady might have her pic up there....?
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Fair enough.But again the question boils down to the presence of any obscene pose...and not about people who comment.You cannot stop comments.Originally posted by deathscythe99:The lady might have her pic up there....? -
Yeap...Originally posted by LazerLordz:Fair enough.But again the question boils down to the presence of any obscene pose...and not about people who comment.You cannot stop comments.
She seems a little tilted to wanting press censorship and restricted freedom for posting comments.
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That's her agenda because she seems to be just bent on this SGGirls thingy.Sometimes it's tough to talk to absolutists like these people.Originally posted by deathscythe99:Yeap...
She seems a little tilted to wanting press censorship and restricted freedom for posting comments.
In that case, then...dun come online lor -
Such people cannot be easily dissuaded from the stand they take. In fact, more likely such arguments may further push their thoughts down the neverending sh|t hole and remain stuck there.Originally posted by LazerLordz:That's her agenda because she seems to be just bent on this SGGirls thingy.Sometimes it's tough to talk to absolutists like these people.
Oh well, she has her own points, this is the era of free speech.... -
KNN, SEE LAH, NO WONDER I TOOK SO LONG TO F-ING LOG IN! MAH DE.
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rite loh!!Originally posted by FireIce:oredi discussed until leng leng long long in sggirls.com forum liao
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=131470
we've been mentioned 3 times this week~
so much free publicity......high traffice.......slowwwwww
later forum server crash due to too many ppl surfing sggirls
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Originally posted by Quinsy:KNN, SEE LAH, NO WONDER I TOOK SO LONG TO F-ING LOG IN! MAH DE.
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system very slow. all the sickos in singapore are here.
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Originally posted by Kenashi:rite loh!!
later forum server crash due to too many ppl surfing sggirls
Die lar...will sgforums die like dat...? -
no wonder...
forum so lag..all the TKP surfing sggirls -
Originally posted by dragg:system very slow. all the sickos in singapore are here.
does that make us one of them
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website itself no problem
it's users problem
tts why education is bery impt..........
look at wat kinda ppl we have
>taiji fault to govt< -
Cheng Hu should encourage selling of pornography then, to prevent the lagging of sggirls on the net......Originally posted by FireIce:website itself no problem
it's users problem
tts why education is bery impt..........
look at wat kinda ppl we have
>taiji fault to govt< -
should not, after a while, those ppl oso sianz liao then everything will be back to normal until another article come up in the newspaper.Originally posted by deathscythe99:
Die lar...will sgforums die like dat...? -
Originally posted by FireIce:website itself no problem
it's users problem
tts why education is bery impt..........
look at wat kinda ppl we have
>taiji fault to govt<
It's their eyes and minds and hands...cannot control.
No matter how much education you try to input, they refuse to learn = refuse to learn