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Amos Yee is set to give his first ever public talk at Harvard.
Yee is a teenager from Singapore who has recently been granted political asylum in the US. He was in trouble with the Singaporean regime for repeatedly criticizing the country's late founder, Lee Kuan Yew. His treatment has been marginally better in the US. Although he was granted asylum by the US back in March, he was held in US jail until late September where he ran in to difficulties for his ongoing criticism of Islam. Currently, he is banned from Facebook for alleged, unspecified "community standards" violations. His videos are available on YouTube.
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @11:39AM
The only reason Singaporeans are fascinated with Yee is that he criticized the regime and appears to have got away with it.
In reality he's like a teen-blogger version of Bobby Fischer, who made a habit of slagging all those who had helped him in his life (first the US, then Japan, and finally Iceland), though Fischer was actually famous for being the world's best at something.
If you want a more grown-up critique of Singapore, I'd recommend 'The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye' by Sonny Liew - an alternate history of Singapore done in comic-book form, which pulls no punches about Lee Kuan Yew. I'm amazed they published this in Singapore at all.