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About 40 percent of voters voted against the PAP in the May 2011 general election. About 65 percent of voters voted against the government-endorsed candidate in the 2011 presidential election. Yet the survey described in my previous post showed that socio-political websites’ readership was only 12.6 percent of the adult population. So where did all those who voted against the PAP come from?
Yet, looking at the words and actions of the PAP leadership, you can’t help but see that they actually do think it is critical commentary on the internet that is changing people’s minds, thus all the talk about correcting “falsehoods” and striving for “balance” (by encouraging pro-PAP sites). Then there has been the campaign — a little less evident now — vilifying the internet as some kind of dangerous, lawless place full of half-truths and vicious smears.
If only we could tame the internet, Singaporeans of all stripes would love the PAP — the party seems to think.
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...truth-and-right-pap-lost-in-a-changing-world/
Yet, looking at the words and actions of the PAP leadership, you can’t help but see that they actually do think it is critical commentary on the internet that is changing people’s minds, thus all the talk about correcting “falsehoods” and striving for “balance” (by encouraging pro-PAP sites). Then there has been the campaign — a little less evident now — vilifying the internet as some kind of dangerous, lawless place full of half-truths and vicious smears.
If only we could tame the internet, Singaporeans of all stripes would love the PAP — the party seems to think.
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...truth-and-right-pap-lost-in-a-changing-world/
