Starhub, one of the largest ISP in Singapore recently added 2 video sharing porn sites to their ban list. According to Asiaone, if you are accessing these sites with a Starhub home account, you’ll land at a Starhub notice page, saying the site has been restricted by Media Development Authority (MDA) Singapore.
Jason Hoong, MDA Senior Assistant Director says the reason they have these two sites blocked is because they delivers free hardcore contents and are easily accessible by the youths. Neither MDA nor Starhub has mentioned which were the two sites, but Asiaone did mentioned these sites were among the 19th and 33rd most popular sites in Singapore (according to Alexa). So out of curiosity, I did a quick look up on Alexa, and here they are.
Is this move efficient in blocking the young ones getting exposed to the pornographic material? I certainly don’t think so. There are tons of sites like this, and they are really easy to get to. Come on, we are talking about the World Wide Web here. Banning two of the most popular will just lead the desperate crowd searching for more alternatives out there. I mean how many can you ban? Besides, the banned sites can be easily accessed with proxies, if one knows how. In my point of view, this measure taken by MDA and Starhub might be successful in banning 2 porn sites, but what about the rest out there?
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Posted by hongkiat in Tech News , at 05.23.08 |
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Comments
Kay May 23rd, 2008
They surely cannot ban all. This move just encourages teenagers in looking for more similar websites to replace the old ones. If they really want to ban, ban Geylang’s prostitution first. :P
Replyblah May 23rd, 2008
why don’t they leave the moral lessons up to the parents?
Replyjialat May 23rd, 2008
SingNet also banned this 2. I think it is across all the ISPs in SG. However, stupid enough, by removing “www” in front, you can still access it…
Replyhongkiat May 23rd, 2008
@Jialat you are so right, they banned ‘www.youporn.com’ instead of the entire thing. That’s really silly of them.
Replyghostz May 25th, 2008
The news makes me wana laugh! They think nobody could get in? i went to those website few days ago and i don’t mean im underage….what i wana say is there are still way to get into those site with a easy way which they never thought of it. Sad for them….but how to get in? Well those kinda way gota keep a low profile but still there wont be a way to block it totally. Peace =)
ReplyLoL May 25th, 2008
this is just a really desperate move.. i think that parents should teach their children.. Banning these 2 sites doesnt stop underaged ppl from visiting the sites.. there are too many sites.. This doesnt do much.. sg nvr really educated youths abt pornography..
ReplyDanny May 26th, 2008
so what they gonna do. Ban all the porn sites on the net? hahaha… hilarious
ReplyJAJAJAJA May 27th, 2008
Its wun be useful. There is more “anti-kid” nowadays. Soon they will learn about proxy which they will visit it on purpose to defy MDA. More on nurture than set the rules.
Replydonald September 20th, 2008
well i dun think they meant it to be 100% effective to ban against porn sites because they are smart enough to know that such banning is never going to be 100% effective because there are plenty of such sites online and also there are bypasses…
BUT they still have to do something to prevent easy access to http://www.youporn.com etc right? If not, someone else in singapore will just start to complain again..and want them to do so..
it is just like you know there are always going to be crimes happening no matter how good your police is, does that mean that you will just abort and do away with a police force in your country?
this is the world.. face it.. and stop trying to find bones in an egg…
Replymaple October 5th, 2008
why not?! it’s a first step in the right direction (finally!) and [kay], (nothing personal but,) the whole prostitution thing is related to crime rates as well. I’m pretty sure we don’t want rape cases to become common?! besides that can’t be equated to surfing porn sites.
on the other hand all this is pretty ironic you know, it’s like spreading something on purpose and then trying to stop it. since you’ve got porn pretty much everywhere. over-sexualised models/ singers and celebs and you can probably see soft porn in every other movie. sheesh.
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Rammon March 23rd, 2009
Haha, the politician act if they are all high and mighty when it comes to moral, when in fact at the end of the day its all about money. Just look at casino, first they say gambling is inmoral than come not one but two casino.
They force 18 year old to learn how to kill people. Really, the politician should just stick morals up their ass!
ReplyBen March 25th, 2009
They should really take the time to do something more useful
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jerkoffcity October 19th, 2009
horrible news: mda just banned lots more streaming porn sites. LOTS MORE. they won. they friggin’ won.
ReplyJO October 20th, 2009
If all porn site banned. Singapore rape case going to happen n more sooner.
ReplyPod October 20th, 2009
This is a stupid move by MDA.
By blocking access to porn sites, things will not help but get worse.
People will get more desperate for sexual pleasure and without masturbation from porns, they would either get a prostitute from geylang or rape someone else.
This is seriously dumb and immature, people from other countries will be like, ‘LOL, Singapore’s two major internet providers blocked porn sites!’.
This is pure retarded.
Replydumb October 30th, 2009
ohh.. come on..
please dont block those sites. That’s not a good idea.
but we can still Use proxy :lol:
Replyea October 31st, 2009
y all the porn site cant enter????
Replylanjiao gia November 3rd, 2009
they sibei guai lang!!!!
Replyhelp! November 15th, 2009
help! anyone know of an goodd sites that aint block yet?? i don wana go out n rape pls! pls share!
ReplyMyOpinionIsBetterThanYours November 23rd, 2009
RETARDS! This won’t stop the young people ( ahh the young people). Not long ago when i was in university, the school put up SEVERAL security measures… Within 3 days of each installment, someone would hack in thereby rendering it useless:D. So they gave up. What i’m trying to say is that youths these days are smart. They can AND WILL find another way. I always believe that exposure is not the problem. Its the lack of understanding and self control that SG has failed to promote.
ReplyJing Wei Chew November 24th, 2009
The move by ISPs and MDA to ban porn websites is a wise one. True, contenders argue that this won’t stop pornomaniac teens from accessing porn from various outlets or simply bypassing it through a proxy. But the fact that at least some porn websites, and mind you these websites are the top websites in the internet, are banned and there is such an huge uproar online, there is certainly the effect of preventing netizens from accessing porn. The new measure also obscure popular porn websites from the innocent’s view.
Even if this measure is ineffective in preventing porn fans from viewing pornography, which is obvious from my case aforementioned that it is not, it is still symbolic in a sense that it proclaims the government rejection of pornography.
ReplyMyOpinionIsBetterThanYours November 26th, 2009
DO THESE PEOPLE HATE PORN OR SOMETHING? WHAT ABOUT US LEGAL ADULTS? BY BANNING PORN THEY DECLARE WAR THE PEOPLE. DO THEY WANT THE UNIVERSE TO EXPLODE???
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ReplySadiamreallysad But1 December 19th, 2009
Because of this i found out what is proxies.WHahahahahah
Replylol February 3rd, 2010
the telcos are doing you a service, ok? pr0n is criminal in singapore, they are stopping you from committing a crime! we should be thankful for this.
btw, i hate pr0n.
Replyasd February 24th, 2010
it seems like using proxy to access porn sites works but they just made it so that you cant stream the videos, even tho you can access the site.
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