Monday, February 27, 2006
Tammy Sex Video
More and more Internet news becomes print news. On Mon 20th, the Straits Times carried an article 'Nanyang Poly probing sex video clip' about a 4.8M handphone video of a couple having sex being circulated. The girl was identified as 'Tammy', a Nanyang Poly student. It was reported that her handphone was "apparently stolen by a girl who was jealous of her popularity." and that the thief "uploaded it and mass e-mailed it to lecturers and students of the school." While the article said that blogging about the incident started on Thu, the earliest blog entries I've found thus far are from the 17th at Book of Aletheia (NYP sex scandal) and juz brennan (Raunchy Poly).
On the 24th, the Straits Times carried an interview with 'Tammy': 'Student in sex video: 'We didn't intend to be porn stars''. Both the Straits Times and the New Paper have been carrying followup articles about cases of photos and videos being used as blackmail after breakups as well as why some people film such videos. Of course some of the articles carried moralistic overtones or undertones. In Penang, the Star carried a story, 'Sex video featuring student on sale', on Sat 25th that the video had been downloaded by pirates and is being sold!
The funniest posting must be from 'zipper'. On the 21st, he posted an 'OPEN LETTER TO PM LEE - Reason why blog sites must be regulated.' to the Google group soc.culture.singapore. You can read for yourself the comments such a post attracted.
Will today's newspaper articles in the New Paper and solitary article in the Straits Times be the end of the coverage? I suspect so unless the perpetuator is caught.
On the 24th, the Straits Times carried an interview with 'Tammy': 'Student in sex video: 'We didn't intend to be porn stars''. Both the Straits Times and the New Paper have been carrying followup articles about cases of photos and videos being used as blackmail after breakups as well as why some people film such videos. Of course some of the articles carried moralistic overtones or undertones. In Penang, the Star carried a story, 'Sex video featuring student on sale', on Sat 25th that the video had been downloaded by pirates and is being sold!
The funniest posting must be from 'zipper'. On the 21st, he posted an 'OPEN LETTER TO PM LEE - Reason why blog sites must be regulated.' to the Google group soc.culture.singapore. You can read for yourself the comments such a post attracted.
Will today's newspaper articles in the New Paper and solitary article in the Straits Times be the end of the coverage? I suspect so unless the perpetuator is caught.
