A Singaporean filmmaker on Wednesday complied with a government order to remove a political film from video sharing site Youtube but said others were defiantly spreading it on the web. Martyn see said he was ordered by the information ministry to to take down all digital copies of the film from Youtube and his blogsite by July 14 or face up to two years in jail and a fine of 10,000 singapore dollars. The banned video titled "Ex-political prisoner speaks out in Singapore" is about a rare public talk in 2009 by Lim Hock Siew, a leftist medical doctor and activist held from 1963 to 1982 during then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's rule.
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