Putfile's Anti-Singapore Actions

It came to my attention that Putfile.com is not permitting anyone from Singapore to use it's service because of the recent hanging of an Australian drug dealer. Here is the post as it is on Putfile.com

"Putfile Says Goodbye To Singapore

At dawn on December 2nd 2005, Singapore hanged a citizen of Australia, despite a plea for clemency from the United Nations. Whilst Putfile is not a human rights campaigning organization, we believe that if a country must have the death penalty, there is no need for it be barbaric. It is enough of a punishment, and a deterrent, to take someone's life in a painless manner, without having to be barbaric about it. Putfile prefers to not continue to provide our free uploading service to a country that executes prisoners by hanging, a method of execution which can take up to six minutes to painfully execute the victim.

For this reason, we are at this time terminating all service to users from Singapore. We shall be happy to restore service following any positive move from the government of Singapore towards abolition of hanging as an execution method.

Goodbye Singapore,

Putfile.

Related Links:
CNN - U.N. effort to spare condemned man - http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/20/singapore.death.ap/
ABC - Nguyen family, friends head home - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1522729.htm
Amnesty International - Signapore - http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/sgp-summary-eng
BBC - Singapore 'tops execution league' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3398043.stm

Press Correction:
The "New Paper On Sunday" recently stated that Putfile is based in Australia, this is incorrect."

 

This is all great and dandy, but putfile is an idiot, that is of course, if you were to think of putfile as a single entity. For the sake of argument, let's look at why they are doing this.  The reason? Because the method of execution is seen as barbaric. So, wait, killing people in general isn't barbaric? What exactly are these people implying, that they see nothing wrong with the whole drug dealer thing, and they see nothing wrong with the execution thing, but the method is what makes them go all up in arms? How wonderful, in the eyes of putfile, I'm an A+ student if I were to walk around and randomly inject people with a lethal serum to kill them, as opposed to stabbings, shooting them in the head or having them mauled by rabbits. No, I can walk around injecting grannies and small puppies because that isn't barbaric.

You know, Singapore must really be crying now. Obviously the people in parliament are going to change their views on executions on the whole, since, of all things, not being able to use one of many upload services on the internet will stand out to them. As if Singapore even needs such a service? Aren't all those Asians using high speed internet access that ties in with the electricity itself?

Some better suggestions for putfile, why not ban Australians while you're at it, or is drug dealing okay in your book? Are they even aware that hangings still take place in many places in the world? For those of you that don't know, I live in Trinidad, which is an island in the Caribbean. In 1999 we took the world record for the most hangings ever done, 9 people over a period of 3 days, 3 a day. I would soon expect to see something on putfile about banning Trinidad, in which case, it'll die. Oh wait, I won't, because Putfile isn't the only place on the internet that does what they do.

Putfile has to be commended for taking a stand, no matter how lopsided it may appear. Know that these things are done for reasons. I myself am not for the death penalty on the whole, though it is deemed necessary in some cases. How Singapore will cope with such an action against them, I do not know.

Random BBC Letter On The Hangings

BBC Article On Hangings