SPH says no one forcing anyone to read STOMP; just go elsewhere!

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

The campaign to close the site, which launched on 7 April, has attracted 23,160 signatures on Change.org at the time of writing.

The campaign, instigated by a young Singaporean retail executive, has attracted international media attention, with Al Jazeera’s Washington bureau running an internet program on what it described as a “public shaming” site. SPH declined to be on the show.

STOMP has been accused of promoting cyberbullying, racial intolerance and the invasion of privacy, particularly on public transport.

Despite reports to the contrary, Daniel told Mumbrella that the campaign had had an impact on the publisher.

“I can’t say that it [the anti-STOMP campaign] doesn’t have impact on us. We will have to review it. After all, we serve an audience,” he said this afternoon.

“But having said that, I have to measure that [negative] sentiment against the fact that we have a solid following of people who can live with a bit of edginess. They’re not troubled by it. But that’s the internet for you,” he said.

“Everything people accuse STOMP of, you could say the same of a dozen sites on the internet. We have to decide what the best response is,” he said.

“We are looking at it calmly. I think there’s been a little bit of astroturfing on the numbers [of backers of the anti-Stomp campaign]. But we have to accept that these are genuinely held views.”

He added: “I’m not forcing everyone to read it [STOMP]. If you don’t like it, go elsewhere. It’s not as if STOMP is your only media diet. It’s a website for people to engage with us, and that’s what it is.”

http://mumbrella.asia/2014/04/singap...-shaming-site/


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