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09 Nov 2006 · #asides

Under Section 298 of the Singapore Penal Code, it is an offence to say words meant to wound religious feelings. There’s a proposal now to expand the scope to include racial feelings as well. Link. I guess Richard Dawkins would be seen as criminal of the first order under Singapore Law.

WIPO is the UN agency that creates copyright treaties -- it has the same relationship to bad copyright law that Mordor has to evil. -- Cory Doctorow