Where’s the limit in print?
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Peter Ong
I can’t believe that a national newspaper such as The Straits Times in Singapore would allow obscenities to be posted on its website.
A reader posted the following comment on an interview with Ris Low, the newly-crowned Miss Singapore World.
The comment deliberatelly misspelt words that would have been easily caught by the computer dictionary. But the question is: Where are the checks before comments are posted?
Ironically, there is a warning by The Straits Times that such users will be banned in future.
The comments posted online at the paper’s website seem to show me one thing: the intellectual level (or lack of it) of its readers.
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