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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Wow. America finally has solved *all* of the important issues and can now concentrate on the trivial...
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Well we could just have a censor control board like in Singapore, it is so much more efficient... I recall watching Robocop and wondering why it was so short and disjointed, or The Accused and not getting why Singaporeans suggested "she deserved it" since the whole end scene was cut out. 
expatsingapore.com
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Materials Subject to Censorship
To someone from abroad, Singapore's censorship laws may seem peculiar, with different guidelines on different types of material subject to controls by two different government departments.
Printed books, newspapers, periodicals, gramophone records and audio compact discs are subject to censorship by:
The Controller of Undesirable Publications (CUP)
Censorship Section, Ministry of Information & the Arts
Tel: (65) 6375-2500
Hotline: 1800-375-7080 (toll-free in Singapore)
Publications may be banned on moral, religious or communal grounds. There are about 170 English books and magazines banned in Singapore, mostly magazines with sexual themes.
Among the banned books are: Tall and Torrid, Swamp Lust, Soft Lips on Black Velvet and Malaya's Case for Independence. Fans of classic literary erotica may wish to note that these are also banned: The Bedside Philosophers by French writer Marquis de Sade; the 18th-century bestseller by English writer John Cleland titled Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; and American writer Henry Miller's Sexus.
Magazines like Penthouse and Playboy are banned, along with titles such as Nudist Photo Field Trip, Spick Extra, Flicks, Leg Watcher's Special and How to Decorate a Bachelor's Apartment. The two most recent English publications to be banned were Cosmopolitan magazine in 1982, and the religious publication of the International Bible Students' Association in 1994.
Other items like calendars, posters and playing cards are also checked and referred to the Controller in cases of doubt.
Films, videos, video games, laser discs and CD-ROMs are subject to censorship by:
The Board of Film Censors (BFC)
Tel: (65) 6738-2678
Hotline: 1800-736-2231 (toll-free in Singapore)
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