Amos Yee
Amos Yee Pang Sang, also known as just Amos Yee, is a Singaporean blogger, former YouTuber, and former actor. In late March 2015, shortly after the death of the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Yee uploaded a video on YouTube criticizing Lee. Yee also uploaded to his blog an image depicting Lee and Margaret Thatcher engaged in anal sex. He was arrested in Singapore and charged with wounding the religious feelings of Christians. He fled to the United States just before his call-up for National Service, immediately seeking political asylum. In October 2020, he was arrested and charged on state child porn charges after exchanging nude photos and thousands of messages with a 14-year-old girl
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Amos Yee Pang Sang, also known as just Amos Yee, is a Singaporean blogger, former YouTuber, and former actor. In late March 2015, shortly after the death of the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Yee uploaded a video on YouTube criticizing Lee. Yee also uploaded to his blog an image depicting Lee and Margaret Thatcher engaged in anal sex. He was arrested in Singapore and charged with wounding the religious feelings of Christians. He fled to the United States just before his call-up for National Service, immediately seeking political asylum. In October 2020, he was arrested and charged on state child porn charges after exchanging nude photos and thousands of messages with a 14-year-old girl from Texas while he was living in Chicago. As of December 2018, his WordPress blog, personal Facebook page, and pro-pedophile Discord server entitled the ‘Ball Pit’ were shut down. In May 2018, YEE’s channel was removed by YouTube for violating community guidelines and Twitter suspended his account. In January 2012 Yee was widely criticized by netizens for uploading a video to YouTube which called the New Year’s Day rip-off of Western New Year’s Day a ‘Chinese New Year.’ He was raised Catholic, and began attending Mass independently of his family, but in 2013 he was reportedly kicked out of service as an altar boy after swearing during a meeting. After meeting with a priest to question his confirmation, and studying skeptical websites and videos, he became an atheist.
In March 2011 he won awards for Best Short Film and Best Actor at The New Paper’s First Film Fest for his film Jan. The FFF awarded Yee a video camera and video editing software. Following the success of Jan, FFF chief judge Jack Neo offered Yee an internship and invited Yee to audition for We Not Naughty, a film about juvenile delinquency. In the film Yee played a smart younger brother to a lead actor’s character and was allowed by Neo to write his own dialogue. Neo said that Yee only had three scenes in the movie and praised Yee as a comedian with a passion for film-making. He also suggested Yee needed to learn humility, saying that he is… an actor, but also suggested that he needed to play a role in a film that was not his own. In September 2017, following an immigration appeals court’s decision to uphold his bid for asylum, Yees was released in September 2017. Yee received death threats for allegedly supporting pedophilia in videos and blog posts. He is currently awaiting trial in the U.S. for child pornography charges. He has been released on bail and is expected to appear in court in October 2020. Yees has been described as a “prisoner of conscience’ ” by Amnesty International, which considered him to be a ”prisoners of conscience ” Yee has been accused of being an “arrogant” and “crucial” figure.
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