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The beginnings of The Online Citizen - pinkypanther - 18-09-2021
The name was conjured at Glenda Han’s pub in Boat Quay. I believe that pub was called The Camel (in French). That was where my friends in the WP and I would hang out. (This was in 2006, when I was a WP member.) I had 2 names on the shortlist, after weeks of throwing up various alternatives. The other option was Ground-up.
In the end I chose The Online Citizen because of how the government (yes, even then) were trying to discredit the online community, with the media painting us critics as unpatriotic.
So I chose “online citizen” as a rebuttal to that – that even though we may be online, we were still citizens of Singapore, with our rights to speak.
More at https://www.bannedsite.com/forum/current-affairs/the-beginnings-of-the-online-citizen