• Squire1039@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Meanwhile, other laws in Singapore (with some exceptions):

    • No Smoking in Public. Fines up to $200, increasing to $1,000 if taken to court.
    • E-Cigarettes are Prohibited. Fines up to $10,000, imprisonment up to 6 months; subsequent offence up to $20,000, mprisonment up to 12 months.
    • No Eating or Drinking on Public Transport. Fine up to $500.
    • No Playing Musical Instruments in Public. Fine up to $1,000.
    • No Connecting to Someone Else’s Wi-Fi. Fine up to $10,000, imprisonment up to 3 years; subsequent offence up to $20,000, imprisonment up to 5 years.
    • No Importing or Selling Chewing Gum. Importation fine up to $100,000 or imprisonment up to 2 years; subsequent offence up to $200,000 or imprisonment up to 3 years. Sale fine up to $2,000.
    • No Drinking After 10.30pm. Fine up to $1,000 (first offence), up to $2,000 and/or imprisonment up to 3 months (repeat offence).
    • Don’t Feed the Pigeons. Fine up to $500.
    • Don’t Feed Any Wildlife. Fine up to $5,000, or up to $10,000 for subsequent offences.
    • Flush the Toilet. Fine up to $1,000.
    • No Littering. Fine up to $2,000 (first conviction), $4,000 (second conviction), $10,000 (subsequent convictions).
    • No Singing Explicit Lyrics. Imprisonment up to three months and/or a fine.

    Life is grand!

    • evident5051@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      There’s a reason why it’s frequently referred to a fine city!

      However, I’ll have to say I have been living there for a few decades and have never received a fine, ever.

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        9 months ago

        I bet they don’t have to do too much to enforce some of these laws. Singapore is one of the places (along with Japan) with really low crime rate. The legend (see youtube) is that, if you leave your iPhone on a table in a coffee shop, you can come back to claim it a few hours later. A good part of it is probably because of socioeconomic reasons.

        Otherwise, I also bet it’s just your getting caught by the authorities (with whatever Orwellian technologies they use to catch you) and your being reported by people surrounding you.

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      9 months ago

      I honestly support the flush the toilet fines.

      People are so nasty in public bathrooms here in the States.

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      9 months ago

      I understand and agree with most of these. But the fines are pretty high.

      No Connecting to Someone Else’s Wi-Fi. Fine up to $10,000

      I’m wondering if this is enforced or is a tack-on to when someone is caught using someone else’s wifi to run scams or other illegal activity.

      No Drinking After 10.30pm. Fine up to $1,000

      This is my biggest objection. That’s like when all the good drinking happens.

      Flush the Toilet. Fine up to $1,000.

      Lol. What? This has to be for public toilets. The fine is pretty ridiculous.

      No Singing Explicit Lyrics. Imprisonment up to three months and/or a fine.

      Can you curse regularly?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Translation: we are getting ready to roll out massive censorship and additional surveillance

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    9 months ago

    So…what does this mean for those who have F-Droid or Aurora Store installed on their phones? Will apps from those stores be considered “unverified” by Google’s standards?

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      9 months ago

      Just a few days ago a friend showed me that play protect has marked Yet Another Call Blocker from F-droid as malicious on their phone.

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      9 months ago

      I recon aurora store should still work since it’s providing the playstore stuff, just a bit more privacy friendly afaik.

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    9 months ago

    Singapore: you plebs are too stupid to protect yourselves, so we use state machinery to ensure you don’t do stupid stuff

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      9 months ago

      The update will progressively arrive on all Android users’ devices and will be enabled by default through Google Play Protect, said Google’s director of android security strategy Eugene Liderman

      This is not reddit. Please don’t comment just on the headline.

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    9 months ago

    The security tool will work in the background to detect apps that use suspicious permissions, like the ability to spy on screen content or read SMS messages.

    What has “suspicious” got to do with “malicious”?