Singapore and the right to silence
MAY 5 — The local coffee shop recently stopped broadcasting football matches in the evenings.
These centres are where a large proportion of residents get their meals — and nearby shops and amenities mean this is also where people do a good part of their socialising. While I can begin to see the logic of some restriction on smoking and excessive drinking, watching football was really a harmless pastime — and important to some of the older and retired men in the neighbourhood.
The residents of the condo were making a real effort to stop the pleasant and very reasonable volume of “live” music played by the bar until only 10pm on weekends. Whether it’s a young child practising the piano or bass guitar — the history of human civilisation is the history of noise. It is embedded at every level of our culture.
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