The rabid netizens that regularly appear in the comments section on the news in Singapore need to be better managed.
Public displays of idiocy are important in showing our kids how not to behave when they grow up, but so is minimising human-wildlife conflict.
Foreigners have never been encouraged to attempt to influence local policy-making, neither should rabid netizens be just because they think they will look cute.
Wild netizens have the potential to spread fake news and other forms of idiocy and do not belong in public forums.
But we allow them to roam into the national news without any form of deterrence.
Taxpayers spend billions on financing a sound and efficient public service based on extensive evidence-based research and careful consideration.
To suggest that they must take up the added burden of calling out rabid netizens in the comments sections would be absurd, since there is nothing natural about idiots opining on matters of national importance.
The IdiotWatch group should take more proactive action in discouraging idiocy from entering public forums. Deterrents such as loud air horns or maybe carefully calibrated rubber bullets could be used.
Such tactics have been employed by people dealing with Karens in the United States.
By making unintelligent netizens fear flogging their idiocy in public spaces, it reduces social conflict and actually helps conserve our national discourse better in the long term.
Letting uninformed netizens run amok and wreak havoc in public forums around Singapore is not exactly painting them in a good light, especially when netizens have been known to troll comments sections just for sport.
Every day, innocent Singaporeans are exposed to the shocking idiocy of netizens in the Straits Times forum and comments section.
Netizens should be confined to wild areas in Singapore, such as the taxi cabs and kopitiams, where they truly belong.
This needs to happen quickly, before regular citizens get frustrated enough to doxx and harass rabid netizens on Rice Media.
Ivan Hong
This article is a satirical take on a Straits Times forum letter calling for otters to be culled in Singapore.
