Be careful what u blog.

Oppression hits my beloved sing.ah.pore blogosphere. Acid Flask was forced to shut down under threat of libel suit.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. – Wendell Phillips

Unfortunately in recent days, the price of maintaining the content which used to be accessible at this URL has become too high for the author to afford. AcidFlask thanks readers for their past support and regrets the inconvenience caused.

AcidFlask would like to apologize in particular to Mr. Philip Yeo, Chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, for having hosted or made remarks which Mr. Yeo felt were defamatory to him and the agency that he leads. AcidFlask promises to not make such remarks again on this website.

It is even more alarming to see what Reporters Without Borders said about the turn of events.
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A few days later, Acid Flask shut down the blog and posted a message of apology to Yeo in its place. Other Singapore blogs that had reproduced the remarks quickly afterwards posted apologies or themselves closed down.

Singapore Official Porn Site ponders on what happened to free speech.
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Do anyone here still remember that obscure little place called the Speaker's Corner. The one located at Hong Lim Park, remember? That really secluded place in which the gahmen set up where after registering, we can freely conduct speeches for whoever is interested.

The incident even caused Mr Brown to be spammed, and angered Mr Miyagi.
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If you get 'threatened with legal action' because of something you wrote on your blog, I could recommend a coupla good lawyers, but you really should know better than to run with scissors.
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I can get the same kind of attention by standing naked in an MRT train. Once I get arrested and make the news, there'd be at least some quarters who'd defend me saying I've had my freedom of expression curbed.

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