[66558] in Cypherpunks
Re: 45K fine for possession
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Sandfort)
Thu Sep 26 10:40:49 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:16:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03007804ae6f4b9596c9@[206.119.69.46]>
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SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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> Lai Chee Chuen, 41, pleaded guilty Monday to charges of collecting of
> pornographic pictures from the Internet and of possessing Penthouse, a
> magazine banned in Singapore, the Straits Times newspaper reported today.
When I was acting for th--then government owned--Singapore
Broadcasting Corporation, another actor showed me a smuggled in
copy of the Asian edition of Penthouse. It cost him S$30, about
US$20. As tame as it was, it was hot stuff as far as he was
concerned. Apparently, the law is only enforced selectively to
make a point.
S a n d y
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