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      <title>Should governments remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life? by Lee Guo Sheng</title>
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      <pubDate>2020-04-02 00:58:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1. Make posts regarding this topic: Should governments remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life?<br><br>I'm looking at illegal substances such as 🤬, pornography, vape, or even homosexuality. <br><br>I'm also looking at things which the government puts a heavy tax on, such as cigarettes.<br><br>Please choose one side of the argument :) don't be in between. Also tell me what things you want to remove, and why. <br><br>Let the class know what you think, and feel free to comment on each other's work!<br><br><br>Please include your name in your posts!<br><br>-Mr Lee</div>]]></description>
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         <title>No</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Governments should not remove bans so that people can make their choices. If people are to make choices there might be a possibility of a revolution or going a<sub>gainst </sub>the government. For example, free speech allows people to express their freedom and people making choices. This is a human right but there are limits as people might change their perspectives on ideas that are to extreme such as activist, racism and cults. Freedom of speech can also cause false information and incite violence in a country. Freedom of speech can cause hate speech that taunts or mock one's religion and culture. Hate groups are also formed by freedom of speech as they want to vent and express their feelings. One example, is the Ku Klux Klan. <br><br>Kurt</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:06:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>yes</title>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:07:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>No -Hannah</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Government should not remove bans and allow citizen to make their own choice because the law exsit to ensure citizen safety. Without laws, citizens would use the opportunity to over throw the governement and try to take over the country. <br>Firstly, if the government removes ban allow citizen to make their own choice, illegal substance such as drugs that could harms ones health would be legal for people to every citizens. This leads to health issues as children, elderly adults are able to intake this substance and buying at high prices.<br>Secondly, if the government remove bans for citizen and allow them to make their own choice, the would be people that seize opportunity to either harm others such as raping or pedophiles would occur because pornography ban is being removed. A study shows that female being rape either keep it to themselves or report it after 5 years of the incident and with pornography ban being removed, imagine the amount of females, children or even men harmed by all this irresponsible users of pornography. <br>Lastly, if bans are remove, imagine the amount of people that are able to live freely even if the have broke the then law because it does not imply to them, they may even do bigger crimes like selling of drugs, transporting of drug making the country as their playground to run around and making drugs too! <br>Thus, I disagree that the government should remove ban and allow citizen to make thier own choice as citizens can cause harm to others.    <br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>No</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I don't think governments should remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life as it was the citizens actions which led to the government banning items. An example is the government banning d r u g s . It was because of citizens becoming addicted to d r u g s which led to the government banning it. D r u g s are harmful to the consumer's body and it would cause them to feel high and this would cause them to do things they wouldn't normally do and it may lead to other offences such as rape. This shows that the item is banned for a reason. <br>Therefore, the government should keep the bans <br>-ash</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:08:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>yes</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>as if the government allow us to make decisions such as vaping it will encourage the consumption and perhaps influencing young children to use these types of contraband as well as killing themselves  slowly<br>-javier<br>As we have many examples for example our Pmd which are not banned at first but were influence by others to make illegal modifications hence i find we should not allow freedom</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:10:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>No</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Firstly,certain laws and regulations can help citizens to be responsible and behave themselves at all time.Regulations and laws are absolutely necessary for a country to function well as otherwise some of the citizens will not limit themselves to do certain things such as smoking at everywhere，littering or even serious crime.Singapore is a very good example,why it can become so safe,the reason is that the strick regulations and bans force every citizen to behave themselves ,if they do not do so, they eill be punished accordingly.Hence, strict regulations and bans is an important factor to maintain a peaceful society,we should consistently improve on it overtime.<br>Secondly,part of the world is those underage teenagers who can be influenced easily.If those things like cigaritte and alcohols are not limited, teenagers are going to get addicited and loss control once they touch them.If teenagers are </div>]]></description>
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         <title>no</title>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:11:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>nope the government should  not remove the ban  and allow the citizens to make their own choices in life because some people may not be responsible like the others and may use it for wrong </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:13:05 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>No</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Government should not remove bans and give too much freedom to them to make their own choices<br>-Brigitte</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:14:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>No,I think the government should not remove the ban because its illegal.What I am trying to say is that the government should not remove ban probably for  good reason.For example,pornography people might get addicted to watching it and probably the young ones especially if they watched it they might feel like doing it and its bad for their mental health because it might affect them on the inside and also probably the people around them.<br><br>Yes,In my opinion i think the government should remove it but to me i think its only for homosexuality because if they feel attracted to one of the same sex they should be allowed to be together they shouldn't be restrained by the laws saying that  they aren't allowed to be together just because both of them are of the same sex.They should be allowed to be together because they love one another and just because the law states that homosexuality isn't allowed that doesn't mean  they shouldn't be together.If other countries allow l.g.b.t why won't their own country allow it? They might as well live in other country just to be together instead of their own birth place.<br>-Hanna-</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:14:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>No</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>If the government removes all bans,everything illegal like murder,rape,kidnapping,enslavement,theft,piracy and anything society deems bad will be made legal and people will start killing others because it is okay to do so.Most people do not have a sense of right and wrong or a sense of moral judgement so if given the chance,they will commit crimes because it is now legal.<br>So if the government removes bans,people will do what ever they want,when they want,to whoever they want as most peoples morals and ethics comes from the government.If the government does not enforce bans on certain things to do with morals,people will lose their sense of morality and turn to animals.<br>An example of this is when the government of the phillipines said we should kill all drug users and every phillipino was okay with this law or speech.This shows that the government influences the public sense of morals so if the government becomes immoral,the public will also be immoral and follow the killing of people such as without bans the government is saying go kill people and we will not stop you and thus the people of the nation will follow the government and kill people.<br><br>Gareth</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:15:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Yes I agree that government should remove ban on Singapore as it allow people to be given the opportunity to try new things that they couldn't before because it got banned. Example people should be allowed to to chew chewing gum, fireworks and people can keep cats as pets even if they leave in residential flats.<br>  This is because I feel that chewing should be allowed as it allow Singaporean to have one more enjoyment in life. I feel that instead of banning it it should have restrictions instead so Singaporean will learn to be responsible for their own actions. Secondly fireworks should be allowed to be used for celebration as it makes the the party more enjoyable but they must hava restrictionaasuch as an license. So that your responsible and won't injure anyone. Thirdly I feel that people should be allowed to keep cats as pets in residential areas. I feel this way because if dogs are able to be trained why can't a cat I feel that the people are overreacting because of some stray cats and not trained cats. Thus I feel that the government should remove ban so that it's is fair to others and gives them an opportunity to try new things <br>By:js</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:15:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>NO, if the government were to remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life, there will be chaos for example , people will start abusing drugs(heroine,cocaine,those good shit) this may lead to an addiction which may lead to death. So the government implement bans to ensure the country doesn't become chaotic. <br><br>YES, the government has too many strict rules such as any sort of pornography in your possession is illegal(too far btw) laws like this may affect one mentally and physically as they can't receive any pleasure therefore government should remove some bans </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:16:11 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>If citizens were to do things in their own will, their safety will not be ensured. For instance there could be more murder, rape, shop theft. Despite all this, the people that causes this crimes can get away and continue to harm others without having themselves harmed. This would lead to most victims wanting revenge and they would do the same thing or even worse to the next victim causing chaos in earth.<br>~Sujan</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:18:27 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>If the governments remove bans, most of the people will start doing bad things such as smoking everywhere. If students see people smoking almost everywhere, they might be influenced by them and the students will also start doing illegal things. They might think smoking is cool but it actually doesn’t. Smoking alot can cause CANCER! - Jun Cheng</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:18:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In my opinion, i think that the government should not remove bands and allow citizens to make their own choices in life. Different people view things differently, some people think that watching pornography is good while some people think that watching it is bad. The government should not remove bans such as drugs. Singapore is very strict on drugs, even a few kilograms of these may be given us a death sentence. The Singapore’s government sets this rules to give a ‘sting’  or set ‘fear’ in our hearts to not do these bad things. But all in all, our lives are determined by our own choices that we make so making our own choices in life is important. This is why the government does not want us to make bad choices so they have to be strict and set ground firm rules/bans. - Bryan </div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:20:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:21:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:21:12 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>No</title>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:21:23 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>No they should not remove ban because it for our own goods. As for teenagers, they only can drink at age 18. If that law wasn’t there, some teenager may drink at young age and maybe will get addicted. It will be also bad for their health. If teenagers also starts to smoke or vape at young age, they be at risk of getting cancer or will have poor health.They should allow citizens to make their own choices in life because they need to choose their path and what they wants to do. It will be very unfair if they can’t have choices of their own life<br><br></div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:22:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>No. The government should keep bans because people must follow the law and regulations. If the government remove bans and allow citizens to make their own right choice, they might take advantage of it. They will do all those nonsense acts like vaping, and even shouting vulgarity in public. Many people might be affected by the person doing these acts. Vaping should be banned as it's very unhealthy and it's more lethal than the normal cigarette as cigarette has filter while the vape does not. Shouting vulgarity in public is just nonsense so it should be banned as young children tend to learn fast and if they hear anything, they will just learn it and might also shout the vulgar. Therefore, things that are just nonsense and affecting society must be banned <br>~prashanta</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:22:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>No</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The goverment should not remove the bans as teenage might not know the harmful effects of  drugs,alcohol and ciagrette. When teenagers  starts consuming them at a young age the addicition will get worser when they get older which may lead to violent behaviour when they are older -bib<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:22:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The government should not remove bans as being empowered with too much freedom could influence people's mindset that whatever they do will be okay, which could lead people to make bad choices such as taking drugs, but without any punishment whatsoever. Having the freedom to make our own choices is good, making individuals independent. But some people would take that as an advantage to do rediculous stuff and be able to get away with it, Which would put innocent citizens in danger. For example, if smoking freely in public is not against the law, Singapore would experience extreme air pollution which could kill people with lung illnesses and could affect everyone's health. <br>Brigitte</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:23:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>No . If the government removes bans and allows citizens to make their own choices in life , the country will be chaotic . People of different races will start fighting like how they did last time . There are many singaporeans who are too racist . I know this as i saw alot of that racist thing happening in our school . Singapore is a multi racial country . Their own people cant be like that . If racial riots happens , alot of people can get hurt and even die . Streets will be filled with the ahbengs and ahlians fighting . ok bye .</title>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:24:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>they should not remove the bans as it allows alot of freedom to the citizens.if they actually did it hell will break lose like in the purge movie.the movie allows anyone to do whatever they want in 12 hours and the outcome does not look nice. Even if is just a movie,exagurating some things a little bit more, reality bad things can happen whenever there is no rules that people do not need to follow. As a result many people will break lose and go crazy if the situation is not handled properly by the goverment. even if the rules are really strict, it really benefits the people and the goverment as the goverment some control and the people would be safer knowing the bans help the people alot.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:25:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>the government should not remove bans .as there are many laws that help to ensure the safety of the citizens such as laws that are related to rape , drugs, murders and etc. if any were to be removed, there will be some citizens that will take advantage of it and misbehave.thus, i think the government should not remove the bans as it protect our general safety and ensure our rights as citizens against abuses by other people.<br>-deena </div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:26:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>No.If the government didn't ban things like drugs,alcohol and cigarette,those underage teenagers would be attracted to try all these things.Once they started to touch on these things,they may not be able to control themselves and keep trying these things.As a result,their daily life will be affected and they will have unhealthy hobbies such as smoking and drinking.One example is that there are already a lot of underage young teenagers smoking.Therefore if government doesn't ban these things for all ages，more and more people will be affected and they are all going to have unhealthy lives.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:26:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div> The governments should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life that asssociates with the use of illegal substances. This is because the existence of these bans were made to prevent recreational use of cigarettes,vapes and drugs. This issue also concerns the health and safety of the public and even the user of the illegal substances. <br><br>Citizens who takes cigarettes,vapes or drugs will be in a state of consciouness which will lead to them behaving in a certain manner for their own personal pleasure.These people will tend to act inappropriately upon others around them due to the intoxicating effect from the illegal substances where they do things without realising it.Therefore,it may lead to morally unacceptable harm  and danger to others and even leave an impact on the victim's life like being traumatized.In the end, users of these illegal substances may also feel a huge regret once they realised their mistake.<br><br>These illegal substances will also lead to them being highly addicted to it as it contains certain substances and drugs that will take control of their body by releasing withdrawal symptoms and they are unable to stop themselves once they have taken it.In the first place, the ingredients used to make these illegal substances are not healthy for our body. It gets even worse if people take it frequently as it may eventually cause unnecessary damage to our body. <br><br>Therefore, governments bans these illegal substances as there is no evidence to support how well the citizens can control themselves once they have taken it due to the highly addictive substances found in these illegal substances. It will also affect the health and safety of their own well being and others. -wanii :]</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-04-02 01:27:29 UTC</pubDate>
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Others worry that social media leads to “filter bubbles” that preclude democratic deliberation. But the evidence for filter bubbles is not strong, and few remedies exist that are compatible with the Constitution.

Speech on social media directly tied to violence—for example, terrorism—may be regulated by government, but more expansive efforts are likely unconstitutional. Concern about “interference” in U.S. elections glosses over the incoherence of current policies. Some foreign speech, online and off, is legal if the relationship of a speaker and a foreign power is disclosed.

Preventing harms caused by “fake news” or “hate speech” lies well beyond the jurisdiction of the government; tech firms appear determined to deal with such harms, leaving little for the government to do

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         <description><![CDATA[mocratic deliberation. But the evidence for filter bubbles is not strong, and few remedies exist that are compatible with the Constitution.

Speech on social media directly tied to violence—for example, terrorism—may be regulated by government, but more expansive efforts are likely unconstitutional. Concern about “interference” in U.S. elections glosses over the incoherence of current policies. Some foreign speech, online and off, is legal if the relationship of a speaker and a foreign power is disclosed.

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Governments should not remove bans so that people can make their choices. If people are to make choices there might be a possibility of a revolution or going against the government. For example, free speech allows people to express their freedom and people making choices. This is a human right but there are limits as people might change their perspectives on ideas that are to extreme such as activist, racism and cults. Freedom of speech can also cause false information and incite violence in a country. Freedom of speech can cause hate speech that taunts or mock one's religion and culture. Hate groups are also formed by freedom of speech as they want to vent and express their feelings. One example, is the Ku Klux Klan. 

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Government should not remove bans and allow citizen to make their own choice because the law exsit to ensure citizen safety. Without laws, citizens would use the opportunity to over throw the governement and try to take over the country. 
Firstly, if the government removes ban allow citizen to make their own choice, illegal substance such as drugs that could harms ones health would be legal for people to every citizens. This leads to health issues as children, elderly adults are able to intake this substance and buying at high prices.
Secondly, if the government remove bans for citizen and allow them to make their own choice, the would be people that seize opportunity to either harm others such as raping or pedophiles would occur because pornography ban is being removed. A study shows that female being rape either keep it to themselves or report it after 5 years of the incident and with pornography ban being rmeoved, 
















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Firstly,certain laws and regulations can help citizens to be responsible and behave themselves at all time.Regulations and laws are absolutely necessary for a country to function well as otherwise some of the citizens will not limit themselves to do certain things such as smoking at everywhere，littering or even serious crime.Singapore is a very good example,why it can become so safe,the reason is that the strick regulations and bans force every citizen to behave themselves ,if they do not do so, they eill be punished accordingly.Hence, strict regulations and bans is an important factor to maintain a peaceful society,we should consistently improve on it overtime.
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No. The government should keep bans because people must follow the law and regulations. If the government remove bans and allow citizens to make their own right choice, they might take advantage of it. They will do all those nonsense acts like vaping, homosexual, and even shouting vulgarity in public. Many people might be affected by the person doing these acts. Vaping should be banned as it's very unhealthy and it's more lethal than the normal cigarette as cigarette has filter while the vape does not have a filter. Lgbt should be definitely be banned as there should be only the opposite gender love relationship. There are only two genders in this universe and the love or romance should only happen with the opposite sex and not the same. Like poles repel, unlike poles attract. Shouting vulgarity in public is just nonsense so it should be banned as young children tend to learn fast and if they hear anything, they will just learn it and might also shout the vulgar. Therefore, things that are just nonsense and affecting society must be banned 
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Yes I agree that government should remove ban on Singapore as it allow people to be given the opportunity to try new things that they couldn't before because it got banned 
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Yet American law and culture strongly circumscribe government power to regulate speech on the internet and elsewhere. Regulations of social media companies might either indirectly restrict individual speech or directly limit a right to curate an internet platform. The First Amendment offers strong protections against such restrictions. Congress has offered additional protections to tech companies by freeing them from most intermediary liability for speech that appears on their platforms. The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that private companies in general are not bound by the First Amendment.

However, some activists support new efforts by the government to regulate social media. Although some platforms are large and dominant, their market power can disintegrate, and alternatives are available for speakers excluded from a platform. The history of broadcast regulation shows that government regulation tends to support rather than mitigate monopolies.

Others worry that social media leads to “filter bubbles” that preclude democratic deliberation. But the evidence for filter bubbles is not strong, and few remedies exist that are compatible with the Constitution.

Speech on social media directly tied to violence—for example, terrorism—may be regulated by government, but more expansive efforts are likely unconstitutional. Concern about “interference” in U.S. elections glosses over the incoherence of current policies. Some foreign speech, online and off, is legal if the relationship of a speaker and a foreign power is disclosed.

Preventing harms caused by “fake news” or “hate speech” lies well beyond the jurisdiction of the government; tech firms appear determined to deal with such harms, leaving little for the government to do

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         <description><![CDATA[<div>the should not remove if they do it the citizens would not control this privilege and they city can have a total disaster a there would be a huge change in the crime rate<br>like shoplifting, if they have the freedom they will think that they can do anything and know one can stop them. the disaster would be that all the citizen would do what ever they please this will lead to the city just being hit by Huge apocalypse and the city will break down and know one will visit that country ever again. This will effect almost all the crime<br>- NISCH</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choice in life because removing these bans would lead to the country being messed up. This is because if things such as cigarettes, vape and porn are not banned, citizens will have curiosity on how everything feels like, therefore, they would try. Which would lead to addiction as these things are very addictive after first or second try. Not only will the citizens get addicted, but also their mind and body would be affected due to the inhaling of cigarettes and vapes as well as the disturbing scenes on pornography. The cigarettes and vapes have an addictive scent when inhaled which contains bad chemicals and gases such as phenols and carbon monoxide which is very addictive and hard to stop. Whereas, pornography causes one to be addicted to seeing sexual scenes, leading them to thinking as though people are objects because of the way, the film is being done. Therefore, not banning of these things such as cigarettes, vapes and porn is going to cause big problems to the mind and the body of citizens, bringing down on the health of citizens. <br>-Jenit</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life as Any bans the government made were the things for people easy to be addicted to it. For example drugs, pornography.whether it is adult or teenager, once they decided to try, they will not have enough self-control to stop doing it. The drug will cause people severe physical injury, and the damage is continuously increasing and irrepressible, this is not allowed by government<br><br>JingYuan</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life as by not removing ban people may use it for inappropriate things such as watching pornography  and this can cause  problems such as addiction and this can affect relationship with your family and as well as friends. also if the government removes ban people will do drugs since they are allowed to do anything they want.and also there will be increase in cream rates as there is no bans .bin<br><br><br><br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>No . The government should not remove bans and and allow citizens to make their own choices . There are a lot or some people who still are not with other races . I know this as I have seen many racist people in Sg when it is supposed to be a multi racial country . Singaporeans also complain a lot . Imagine they want more than just to remove the ban and do whatever they want . They might go on a killing spree . They will be smoking everywhere and that is disgusting . The smell ew . I wouldn’t want that and I’m pretty sure many of the non smokers wouldn’t want that too . There will be racial riots . Since Singaporean’s complain a lot the government will get more and more and more complaints coming in if they remove bans and let them do whatever they want . </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>In my opinion, I strongly disagree with the intention of removing bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life. I feel that when the government actually remove bans citizens should feel scared about their surroundings because when the government remove bans, citizens who have conflicts with other people will tend to take revenge. This will benefit them as they can buy actual guns and kill people. Let's take a look at the state of the United States when they allow their citizens to buy guns. Well, everyday at least 100 people are killed with guns. Personally, I feel that if this happens to Singapore it would be too chaotic to stop the citizens and in worse case scenario when citizens actually overtake the government as the government cannot do anything to stop them this will be full of chaos. When people are able to buy guns this will cause many people to feel a very strong feeling of fear and vulnerability.  This then cause people to buy even more guns to protect themselves because they will feel hopeless and fearful for what to come. When this chain reaction occurs almost everybody will have a gun in their possession and if a conflict happens between people chaos will start and people will start to kill each other. Well, killing each other is just a puzzle piece of a bigger problem. In the United States 51% of Americans suicide by using guns. When the world becomes chaotic as the government remove bans of drugs and guns people will start to take more drugs.  When people take drugs they tend to not think carefully of what they are doing. So people will start doing foolish things that will cause them to feel regret for the rest of their lives. For example when a parent take drugs, children will be at risk because all childrens are curious. They also tend to think that what their parents do is correct. So in the end the child will end up taking drugs like their parents. Let's get back to my point of suicide, when people take drugs they don't think of what they are going to do next. This will cause them to suicide as they feel regretful and hopeless. Taking the easy way out will be easy because they have guns with them. Just with the click of the trigger will end their life painlessly. This will influence other people to suicide like how they do. <br>As a result, I feel that the government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life because this will lead to gun violence. This will destroy the next generation to come. -Marcus</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life. It is because the citizens might not able to make proper decisions if the responsibility was given to them. so the government needs to be strict towards their citizens when it comes to making decisions. if the responsibility were given to them some people might misuse it because they did not know how to make proper decisions. <br>so in my point of view, the should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices <br>                               -siva</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>No, the government should not remove bans. They should let citizens make their own decisions, but having too much freedom will make citizens think that whatever they do is acceptable. Laws and rules are to ensure that everything is in order thus controlling and limiting citizen from doing things that is wrong such as smoking everywhere they can, using drugs, raping, etc. <br><br>Removing several laws may cause chaos in the community as now people can do everything they want and increase the crime rate of the country. <br><br>However, I feel that LGBT should not be ban at they just love someone, if they do no harm to the community and others, they should not be prosecuted for being in love with somebody. <br>								Khoa<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life. This act may sound selfish but it is for the better for the citizens. If the government does remove bans, society would be corrupted . There will be lots of crimes such as rape and drug trafficking. Children of young age can also be affected by this because they would be victims to this crimes.(children will think that all this crimes are good and will start doing it till old?) That is why the government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life because it will lead to a corrupt society. ( if the government removes this bans all this crimes would be legal ? )</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The government should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life. It is because the citizens might not able to make proper decisions if the responsibility was given to them. so the government needs to be strict towards their citizens when it comes to making decisions. if the responsibility were given to them some people might misuse it because they did not know how to make proper decisions. <br>so in my point of view, the should not remove bans and allow citizens to make their own choices<br>                                                    -siva</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><br></div><div>The government should remove the bans and allow citizens to make their own choices in life.To get the government to ban things,it’s not the right way to stop something people don’t like,even if there are good reasons for not wanting it.Laws aren’t made only to prevent bad things form happening,they force those who break them to face choices for their actions.Banning drugs may not stop users,but it gives us the ability to punish those who harm themselves or others while selling or using them.Same goes for banning smoking in some places, just leaves smokers no choice but to do it somewhere else.<br>misa.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>no,the govt should not remove bans n allow citizen to make their own life choices.<br>all this bans that were made were all cause our own wrongs that the other people had to right.Alot of people say that they can do better with their own rules and freedom but right now even as of all the rules n regulations they are still a lot of things that are still happening like rapes,drugs,porn imagine what the world would become if there was no rules no bans n we were to leave for our own selfs with our own rules, the world would srsly become corrurpted.<br><br> there are soo many rules for insint man countires say that rape is a serious offence and will led u to fines, canes and many years in jail however there are still so many videos circluating the internet about men raping young girls! this men do this even with the rule imagine how bad it would get if there were rules to control them.<br><br>another one is the watch of pornography, in a lot of countries  porn is banned ! however even with that ban many still watch it with VPN(virtual private network) i wouldn't really say its a bad thing but there are people who get so addicted to it that it may cause a lot of harm to people, their family/friend relationships can be severely affected there are many cases in the world where the major amount of peoples spend watching this sort of videos cause them years of their life, bad relationships n mental damage esp for victims who get assaulted cause of what the other person wants...<br><br>and lastly even with all this bans lgbt should not be considered a "harmful" thing many have different point of view.i personally think lgbt should be supported n treated equal.this people have a freedom of speech so who are you to judge? people are allowed to love who ever or what ever u want.whats the wrong in havin a same sexually partern ? in the end everyones end goal is to have a family n be successful and everyone has their own different paths to that.  its childish if u want to start a ban towards lgbt.u can say there will be contract many more tings however even with sexual partners it can still happen !!! thr will be higher chance of ppl who are gay but honestly if u any gay n don't have sexual intercourse with gay people or those have diseases THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO WORRY n ur not gay or have many more sexual partner!<br><br><br><br>-princess<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>No<br>No, the government should not  remove bans and allow citizens to maketheir own choices in life because this will result in peoples' safety and concern, a country would not be safe if people do their own things that they love to do, like there will be many cases like rape,murdering and even fights that may lead to riots.Therefore the government must not remove bans as bans are very important to the innocent citizens living in a country.<br>The government should not remove bans like cigarattes,drugs and even porongraphic materials becaue if they remove this ban.People will have so many problems in life and the main reason this will lead to is definetely addiction.Addiction is something that people want more from in a negative way like taking drugs and watching p**n.Teenagers will have family relationships matters if they go the wrong path and parents will definetely be worried about their sons' and daughters' future.Therefore the government must not remove bans that are harmful and addicting to people.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Government should not remove bans as there a lot of side effects on the items that are banned for example drugs as it causes Addiction.<br>Drugs are are highly addictive and has a harmful Long term effect on the person consuming it. The Long term effect of drug is that it causes a person to lose control of his/her mind which can cause chaos -bib </div>]]></description>
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