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Stop spreading hate.

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Let me write a fictional story, a horror story.

It’s fake and it may become real if we let our intolerance & hate get spiral out of control.

It may or may not happen but I sincerely wish it won’t but I hope we should be more tolerant to stupid people & just click the block button instead of screenshot & spread to the media (stomp).

December 21, 2012 Singapore

10:00 AM: A few hundreds of racist commenters in facebook, twitter & youtube got their account suspended.

11:00 AM: A few thousands of new accounts created with a few million racist comments got published.

9:00 PM Local Singapore authorities issued a statement in the media (news, stomp.com.sg) that in view of wide spread hostility in the cyberspace they will discuss a new law in the next emergency parliament discussion.

December 22, 2012 Singapore

Singapore government decided to put forth a new law to protect people online from hostility & bullying in all social networks. All ISP will hand over private internet user’s details if there’s a complaint to the new governmental hotline.

Users will first get an email warning & their social network account suspended, 2nd warning is an suspension of internet services with early termination penalty. Third strikes will be fines or jail time.

Any users in Singapore that falls within the legal frame work will lose all their internet freedom and will be monitored for all activities.

December 23, 2012 Singapore

Riots started in the streets between different races, religion & FT with stones thrown…flags of different races shooting make shift flame throwers.

Riot police join in the riot after one of the riot police thrown down their uniform and join in the riot…as all of them are of different races & many are not even born here.

Soldiers deployed with many are PR status too…

December 24, 2012 Singapore.

Angry riots caused severe property damage to cars, shopping centers and thousands are killed or injured and thousands loses their jobs.

Police shoot to kill for anyone with a weapon.

This day will be remembered as the day we die for no good reason but ourselves to blame.

Stop spreading hate.

Everyone have to do their part in not spreading hate, even in the official media. I question their intention to reveal their race or nationality.

There should be a disclaimer in every such news: All race & nationality are changed due to the sensitivity of the news with respect to the Singapore multi-national environment.

I feel a sense of anger in local community and that sense is growing, the only way to reduce that is for the government to promote equality treatment to both FT & Locals for everything from housing, education, grants, loans, and more.

We are singing our national anthem with pride about equality and harmony and our government should promote that and not be misguided in the name of growth.

Without peace & harmony, there will be no growth.

Youtube finally managed to get my friend’s account back!

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Remember the last blog post I did on “Youtube is not what it used to be anymore”

That post started off when one of my facebook friend’s youtube account got “terminated” with reasons of weird “Impersonation” of someone else.

The great news is, she gotten back her youtube account!

And you can see her wacky videos once more!

I do hope youtube can verify termination reasons before terminating people, at least notify the user in advance so that they can proof who they are or amend what’s wrong with their account.

Automating termination or flagging copyright infringement without proper verification by a proper process is ridiculous.

The most important of all to have a real person to inspect & verify the claims of the problematic accounts or videos BEFORE sending the emails.

DO it right the first time, not accuse people without proper investigation!

I’m glad Youtube had re-activated her account and let’s hope there are no such problems in the future again. :D

Open letter to CBS or any other studios

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Hi CBS or any other television studios,

I saw your interesting “ad” or facebook post about the popular television show “The Mentalist” and I had decided to check it out.

After clicking on the link, I find the following making me gasped in horror.

And upon further investigation, this particular video had been purposely blocked from being viewed by selected countries.

Some comments found in the facebook shows how limited your “video” can be seen from other countries but you prefer to “advertise” this video on an internationally viewable facebook post.

I understand after loading that page there are some other videos below that I can still watch.

But it defeat the purpose of clicking on your facebook post that I’m attracted to in the first place.

I know you probably have your reasons for limiting this small clip of video from showing based on availability of that episode in that country and don’t want to give too much “spoilers”.

Or there are other reasons that defy any conventional logic, obviously you want  as many  people as possible to watch your videos right?

The only problem is how you can profit from giving this SMALL clip away free internationally without limitation, it’s basically VERY simple…targeted advertising.

I noticed other videos you had shown have a compulsory pre-roll advertising however that “ads” may show a product that’s not available in my country lowing the value of showing that advertisement hence lowering the amount advertisers willing to pay as it’s not the right market.

If you can detect the country based on IP address, why can’t you selectively show advertisements that have product available in that country and give advertisers the options to choose which country they want to show to?

If you, the studio can release more such videos internationally, the number of advertisers will increase tremendously and so you can charge more per view.

Now, just hope iTunes Videos can be opened up to more countries so that YOU the studio can sell your television shows by the episode through Apple iTunes internationally…by showing this video clips & putting a iTunes link.

Cord cutters are already here, they are just looking at that red words “not available for your geographical region” with utter disgust and the next link they go to maybe piratebay instead.