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The blog that hosted a hate-filled post targeting the Filipino population here has been taken down by Google for violating its content policy this Wednesday. The article, Blood Stained Singapore, which was hosted by Blogger, a blog-publishing service owned by Google, was removed a day after the Philippine Embassy in Singapore posted a statement on its website that it had asked the Republic’s Government to hold the blogger accountable, according to Channel News Asia.
Responding to queries as to why the blog was removed, Google referred TODAY to its content policy, which states that bloggers should not “cross the line by publishing hate speech … content that promotes hate or violence towards groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status or sexual orientation/gender identity”. Mr Baey Yam Keng, MP for Tampines, noted that feelings may get amplified because of social media. “The enormity of social media is such that people may post these kinds of things for many reasons. I’m not sure of the intention behind this post.”
Mr Baey said this Wednesday he had spoken to a Filipino family during his house visits. They did not “seem to be too affected” and “were quite cool” about the blog post, he said. “I think Filipino and other foreign families who have been here for several years know that the Singapore community is not like this. This is probably the case of one extremist and (the encounter) gives me the assurance that they understand that the post did not resonate with Singaporeans.”
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