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The following was published by TNP over the weekend. Quite interesting if you superimpose this against who has been saying what in SBF.
Getting a taste of its own medicine?
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/10/24/getting-a-taste-of-its-own-medicine/
A war of wills is breaking out on the Internet. Even as Temasek Review (TR), the anti-government socio-political website, is pitching itself as a watchdog, netizens are setting up anti-TR sites and blogs. These netizens are now trawling cyberspace to expose TR.
And the cause of the conflict? Netizens claimed that TR had launched smear campaigns against individuals and they’re now hitting back.
These netizens have accused the site of everything from plagiarism to stalking.
Now the conflict has taken a twist with a foreign blog claiming it has a sex video of someone linked to TR.
The foreign blog focuses on risque images and sex scandals, especially those involving celebrities.
The 10-minute video, posted on Oct 19, depicts the TR man as having sex with an unknown woman. But the man has since claimed in an e-mail to the blog that his face was superimposed in the “doctored” video.
He has also asked the blog to remove the video but the blog is refusing to do so.
“Doctored”
Instead, it posed the man’s e-mail on its site, a move not missed by netizens who say that was TR’s own tactic when receiving complaints in the past.
But what does the man in the leaked sex tape have to say about the whole episode?
He told The New Paper on Sunday that he has written to the blog and that the video was “obviously doctored” and that it was an “amateurish job”.
“I have already written to the administrator of the site to ask them to take it down. Anyone can see that it’s not me,” he said.
The foreign blog’s administrator said the TR man did claim this but insisted they got it right.
In the same posting, the blog’s administrator added: “Well at least he admitted that it is in fact his face in the video.
“Never actually thought we would get that much from him.”
Two lawyers The New Paper on Sunday spoke to said the video could be defamatory if it’s not the person the blog claims it is.
It may even amount to criminal defamation.
“The person could make a police report and it is up to the police to pursue the matter,” said a lawyer who declined to be named.
The man in the video said he is now seeking legal advice as to how he can “deal with the whole issue”.
But he won’t be making a police report.
He said: “I just want to get on with my life. If I make a police report, this whole thing will just drag on and on.
“I will keep getting phone calls from journalists and others and spend my whole time dealing with it.
“I just want to move on and concentrate on my work. After two or three days, people will forget about this.”
Several netizens have said TR is now getting a taste of its own medicine.
These netizens have posted on several forums claiming the website is guilty of ripping off articles from other blogs and online publications.
They also accused the site of stalking and making false accusations.
Even worse, a picture purportedlt of TR contributor Molina Han has turned out to be a stock picture from an image resource company.
But others like politician Goh Meng Seng feel it is time to move on.
He was previously flamed by the site which accused him wrongfully of, among other things, infidelity, said Mr Goh.
Referring to the netizens who attacked him, the secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party said: “Sometimes people are mischievous. He (the writer) probably thought he was very clever with hiding behind anonymity.”
Many of the postings on TR are written anonymously or with monikers.
Mr Goh, 40, claimed that he and his party colleagues had a suspect in mind when they tracked the Internet Protocol (IP) address to the contributor.
He exaplined: “Some of us who were being disturbed by him did our own tracking two to three years ago.
“We tracked him down to a unique IP address which belonged to the Health Ministry.”
He said they didn’t pursue the matter further.
Explaining why, he said: “It was a small matter to us. We are more concerned with the political front and moving forward.”
Smear campaign
Netizens also accused the blogsite, Wayang Party, of being behind a smear campaign against the Workers’ Party (WP) in 2007. Some of those behind the TR site now were previously contributing to Wayang Party.
In 2007, posters and pamphlets slamming the WP appeared outside the Fortunate Restaurant in Toa Payoh, where WP was hosting its 50th anniversary dinner.
At the same time, in cyberspace, a blog was set up to challenge the WP but its anonymous author told The Straits Times via e-mail then that he was not responsible for the posters and pamphlets.
WP chairman Sylvia Lim told The New Paper on Sunday that the party did not pursue the matter.
“We have moved on from the incident. Even if we know it is this person behind the attack, we are unlikely to do anything about it,” she said.
“People can do what they like. We can’t please everyone. We have better things to concentrate on, such as the upcoming elections.”
Ng Wan Ching (Hp no: 9823 0493)
[email protected]
Getting a taste of its own medicine?
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/10/24/getting-a-taste-of-its-own-medicine/
A war of wills is breaking out on the Internet. Even as Temasek Review (TR), the anti-government socio-political website, is pitching itself as a watchdog, netizens are setting up anti-TR sites and blogs. These netizens are now trawling cyberspace to expose TR.
And the cause of the conflict? Netizens claimed that TR had launched smear campaigns against individuals and they’re now hitting back.
These netizens have accused the site of everything from plagiarism to stalking.
Now the conflict has taken a twist with a foreign blog claiming it has a sex video of someone linked to TR.
The foreign blog focuses on risque images and sex scandals, especially those involving celebrities.
The 10-minute video, posted on Oct 19, depicts the TR man as having sex with an unknown woman. But the man has since claimed in an e-mail to the blog that his face was superimposed in the “doctored” video.
He has also asked the blog to remove the video but the blog is refusing to do so.
“Doctored”
Instead, it posed the man’s e-mail on its site, a move not missed by netizens who say that was TR’s own tactic when receiving complaints in the past.
But what does the man in the leaked sex tape have to say about the whole episode?
He told The New Paper on Sunday that he has written to the blog and that the video was “obviously doctored” and that it was an “amateurish job”.
“I have already written to the administrator of the site to ask them to take it down. Anyone can see that it’s not me,” he said.
The foreign blog’s administrator said the TR man did claim this but insisted they got it right.
In the same posting, the blog’s administrator added: “Well at least he admitted that it is in fact his face in the video.
“Never actually thought we would get that much from him.”
Two lawyers The New Paper on Sunday spoke to said the video could be defamatory if it’s not the person the blog claims it is.
It may even amount to criminal defamation.
“The person could make a police report and it is up to the police to pursue the matter,” said a lawyer who declined to be named.
The man in the video said he is now seeking legal advice as to how he can “deal with the whole issue”.
But he won’t be making a police report.
He said: “I just want to get on with my life. If I make a police report, this whole thing will just drag on and on.
“I will keep getting phone calls from journalists and others and spend my whole time dealing with it.
“I just want to move on and concentrate on my work. After two or three days, people will forget about this.”
Several netizens have said TR is now getting a taste of its own medicine.
These netizens have posted on several forums claiming the website is guilty of ripping off articles from other blogs and online publications.
They also accused the site of stalking and making false accusations.
Even worse, a picture purportedlt of TR contributor Molina Han has turned out to be a stock picture from an image resource company.
But others like politician Goh Meng Seng feel it is time to move on.
He was previously flamed by the site which accused him wrongfully of, among other things, infidelity, said Mr Goh.
Referring to the netizens who attacked him, the secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party said: “Sometimes people are mischievous. He (the writer) probably thought he was very clever with hiding behind anonymity.”
Many of the postings on TR are written anonymously or with monikers.
Mr Goh, 40, claimed that he and his party colleagues had a suspect in mind when they tracked the Internet Protocol (IP) address to the contributor.
He exaplined: “Some of us who were being disturbed by him did our own tracking two to three years ago.
“We tracked him down to a unique IP address which belonged to the Health Ministry.”
He said they didn’t pursue the matter further.
Explaining why, he said: “It was a small matter to us. We are more concerned with the political front and moving forward.”
Smear campaign
Netizens also accused the blogsite, Wayang Party, of being behind a smear campaign against the Workers’ Party (WP) in 2007. Some of those behind the TR site now were previously contributing to Wayang Party.
In 2007, posters and pamphlets slamming the WP appeared outside the Fortunate Restaurant in Toa Payoh, where WP was hosting its 50th anniversary dinner.
At the same time, in cyberspace, a blog was set up to challenge the WP but its anonymous author told The Straits Times via e-mail then that he was not responsible for the posters and pamphlets.
WP chairman Sylvia Lim told The New Paper on Sunday that the party did not pursue the matter.
“We have moved on from the incident. Even if we know it is this person behind the attack, we are unlikely to do anything about it,” she said.
“People can do what they like. We can’t please everyone. We have better things to concentrate on, such as the upcoming elections.”
Ng Wan Ching (Hp no: 9823 0493)
[email protected]
