Technology for law enforcement judiciously, and privacy concerns

SINGAPORE: Singapore must use technology for law enforcement judiciously, and privacy concerns need to be taken into consideration, said Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Ong Ye Kung on Tuesday (Apr 21).

Mr Ong was speaking to reporters in Hangzhou, China, following the 5th Singapore-China Social Governance Forum on Monday. CNA

This is the most forwarding looking and progressive statement coming from Singapore, using technology to enforce law and security.  The benefits of technology, robots and AIs need no further elaboration. These are highly productive machines, cannot be biased, not subjective to human behaviours and interference. Absolutely impartial if programmed to be so. Of course they can be programmed to lie and to cheat and to be biased. But that should not be the case. And machines cannot be corrupt, another strong point.

With the advancement of AI, and the capacity to store unlimited information, law cases, judgements and precedents, no human lawyer can compete with that, machine is the next thing to replace lawyers in litigation. Not only that, machine can also replace the judges in listening to complex cases or sensitive cases. Rapists have no fear of the likes of Justice Choor Singh in the past. The judiciary will be completely free from human bias and differential access. No one can accuse the court of being biased, favouritism.

This is going to be the future of the Judicial System. Why not, when it has all the advantages that humans cannot provide, clean and fair, justice will not only be done, but be seen to be done fairly and justly. No need to know who is your lawyer, who is the judge, who is the other party, no need to fear the rich and powerful. Only bad news, no need law schools, no need lawyers and judges, only administrative staff to make sure the system is switched on and off when needed will do. Oops, more unemployment as jobs are taken over by machine. But no need to pay an arm or a leg to star lawyers. The cost of litigation will be greatly reduced to the price of electricity and machine time.

A judiciary system run by AI machines will be most suitable for countries that want a cold, steely and efficient system that treats its offenders as objects, not human beans. All judgements would be clean and clinical, devoid of human feelings and encumbrances. The social scientists would argue for human judges to temper the harshness. in a sense cruel, and lack of human sensitivities of machines. It can be a terrifying world when AI machines decide the fate of offenders that are warm blooded humans, not senseless objects.

AI machines are productivity, efficiency and neutrality all rolled into one if wisely applied by warm blooded human beans, caring humans with a heart. The future is going to be very bright. And yes, no privacy issues. The machine will not know who is who or want to know who is who, unless they are programmed to do so.

Trump is indeed a miracle

 Now I am also convinced that God will do things in His own mysterious way. Trump is indeed a miracle created by God to be the President of the USA. And God has made his rule unchallengeable. No one can stop him from doing whatever Trump's need to do, like Judas.

Trump is leading America in a way that no American president could ever do in the past. He is leading America not because he is a wise or a talented leader. Every America knows that he is a D grader, a clown and everything that they did not want in a President. But somehow, they just follow him, admire him, laugh at his silliness, even when he betrays America to serve Satanyahu, oops, I mean Netanyahu, to kill Iranians. The Americans know it is wrong to kill, to pray to Jesus and God to kill, but the Americans were like living under a spell. There is no resistance to Trump's idiocy and violations of the American Constitution or the International Law. The Americans are licking the fingers of Trump without knowing why, involuntarily.

These are miracles in their own ways. And for them to happen the way it is happening is like there is an invisible hand behind everything. Only God can do it, with the power to do it, to make the 340m Americans blindly follow this lunatic and afraid of him, afraid to say no to him.  An idiot cannot command the respect and following of 340m Americans without divine intervention.

Why are the Americans choosing to give up, not to fight this clown when he is doing everything he could, including many vile things, many unethical and immoral things, when they can stop him in many ways? This is a great mystery. Congress and the Senate are as good as hibernating, defunct, afraid of Trump, an idiot.

Similarly, why are the leaders of the world also raised their hands in surrender to this international gangster? Can't they do anything to stop this lunatic from his killing spree? They can't. The invisible hand is controlling everything, to give Trump all the rooms and space to do what needs to be done, to expose the hypocrisies of the evil American Empire and the evilness of the Americans, go kill and kill, kill everyone to wake up the unthinking and the brain dead to see what American terrorists truly are. The pains must be strong enough to wake up the whole world that the evil American Empire is evil to the core and needs to be eradicated for good. 

And Trump is sent solely for this purpose, and he is unstoppable, until the evil American Empire is vanquished. Trump can lie and lie, can kill and kill, and he will have his way, to betray the evil American Empire, like Judas betrayed Jesus. The evil American Empire will be crucified on Capitol Hill. Amen.

If you are still waiting to witness a miracle, look no further. Trump is the miracle. A clown leading 340m Americans and bullying the whole world to subservience.

The jokers in America, headed by clown Trump, want to treat China as a joke

Not only is China not permitted to be perceived as happy, but China is also not permitted to overtake the USA. More than that, China is not permitted to have any influence anywhere in the world. The USA can go on promoting its Monroe Doctrine of total domination and control over the Northern Hemisphere, but the Global South is where the future lies.

I also read the assumption on some social media sites that China's navy is now a joke. Is it because China is not trying to project power and using its aircraft carriers for patrolling just the South China Sea? Now everything that China is doing is propagandized as jokes.

Elon Musk thought that Chinese EVs were a joke years ago when interviewed about China making EVs. That was when Tesla ruled the waves. Now, I do not think he has that same warped mentality. Tesla still depends on Chinese battery makers, and I am sure he does not think that CATL is also a joke.

I am also doubly sure that Steve Jobs did not think that China's cheap workforce was a joke when he decided to invest his iPhone production in China. If that was the case, Steve would have chosen India for even cheaper workers. Now, recently Apple did try to diversify some of its production lines to India and met with problems. The supply chain is not there, the power supply sources unreliable and the workers not at all qualified. With high rejection rates, the savings on labor is negated by the high rejection rates.

Let the USA and the West just presumed that everything Chinese is a joke - the EVs are a joke, the high-speed rails are a joke, the buildings and bridges are tofu models and a joke, the education system is a joke, its supply chain is a joke, its rare earth domination is a joke. I can go on and on. But what is the point. The truth hurts and it will hurt sooner of later.


Anonymous

All the choke points were against China. But China has worked around it

In time to come, as far as China is concerned, those choke points are becoming increasingly less relevant. In any case, those choke points were created to cater to only one objective - to strangle China's dependence on energy. And China seems to be the only country exploring solutions to overcome its vulnerability. The same way that China is finding ways to overcome the projection of power using aircraft carriers by investing in hypersonic drones and missiles with longer reach.

China predicted the USA's agenda after the Iraq War of 1991 and had several decades to plan its counter. All the setups - the BRI, the building of oil pipelines connecting countries from the North, West and South began in earnest, the setting up BRICS and SCO with Central Asian countries, the building of massive dams for hydropower, wind farms and solar farms and the mass transition of its entire transportation system moving to electrification are all not by luck but by necessity and for National Security.

The biggest blessing in disguise of all the effort put in must be the pushing of Russia into China's orbit by the USA and the West. The Ukraine War and the sanctions realistically let China have access to Russian energy on the cheap and on a platter.

The investments in the BRI also enabled China to evade all those choke points to some degree and is paying dividends as trade expands. The formation of SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organization) with the participation of all the Central Asian economies ensured China's ability to access and capitalize on the BRI project. Of course, there were mass demonization of the BRI regarding its debt traps and all that hubris, which is to be expected.


Anonymous

Singapore's impeccable Justice system. Don't play, play

SINGAPORE: The Chief Justice on Wednesday (Apr 22) upheld a one-week jail term for a woman who lied about her address in order to enrol her daughter in a popular primary school.

Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon said the sentence was lenient and he would have effectively doubled it had he heard the case in the first place. He did not because he did not have material before him, such as submissions and case precedents, to inform such a decision.  CNA

This case of a mother trying to game the system to get her child into a good school should be an eye opener to wake up any potential criminal thinking of committing crimes in Singapore. Singapore is very high on upholding law and order. A crime is a crime. One week jail for such an offence is very lenient. Could be worse. 

The one week jail sentence would now be seen as a benchmark for crimes in Singapore. Anyone committing a more serious crime than cheating and lying about address to gain an advantage would surely stand to be jailed more than one week. Cheating crimes of more than a few thousand dollars are definitely more serious than trying to get admission for a child in a primarily school. Would causing hurt to individuals by foreigners, rape or sexual assault be considered more serious than this? Would corruption of more than a few thousand dollars be more serious than this to require jail sentence? What about cheating and scams involving more than a few thousand dollars? What about cheating on academic qualifications and resumes to get a job? Is it more serious than this case?

Personally I think cheating with fake degrees and resumes for employment are much more serious than this case and should all be jailed. Many Singaporeans are victims to fake degrees. National interests are involved. But many things are subjective and depend on many factors like belief systems and values and where they are coming from. What is serious to A may not be serious to B. Only God is fair and just.

Everyone will now use this as a benchmark in reference to what is considered a serious crime that warrants a jail sentence. A jail sentence is the minimum for serious crimes in Singapore. The mother and child did not cause hurt or harm directly to anyone. The crime is to cheat the system not for money, but for a place in a good school, and this is very serious in Singapore. Get it? More serious than corruption cases involving hundreds of thousands or millions.

Getting a slap on the wrist for crimes more serious than this will now be a thing of the past. The Chief Justice has set the standard. This is Singapore's impeccable standard. Everyone better behave, Singaporeans or foreign talents. No exception. Respect the law, and don't get caught. Justice is blind, no care who you are, mother or child. Time to build more prisons.