Singapore is already 'ahead' of the US in having a site-blocking mechanism:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Singapore" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Singapor...</a><p>One nice thing about the US political culture is that even those who want to censor things will try to spin their efforts as being something else; 'censorship' is a dirty word here, and even professional censors know it.<p>This isn't the same in less individualistic cultures; there it is often more broadly accepted that censorship for the 'public interest' must occur. The responsible agencies will thus speak with a frankness and pride about their censoring activities – unlike here in the USA, where the same topics only get euphemistic discussion.<p>Singapore has many admirable qualities but the space afforded non-traditional expression, and especially governmental criticism, is much more limited than in North America. Wikipedia has a nice summary of general cross-media censorship in Singapore...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Singapore" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Singapore</a><p>...and the use of domestic libel suits and other pressure to discredit or pressure news publishers occasionally gets mention in major Western papers, as with this example...<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04pubed.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04pubed.html</a>