Interesting...although most of these are present in any country, at least the ones I have been to. You can use Google in India but not Tiktok (to give one example). Earlier Singapore used to have proxy server for websites but for a long time, that is gone but I guess that's cos they have found other ways to check if they need to. Crackdowns on private condos becoming hotels with guests dragging their luggage and strangers in lift 24x7 have created a lot of trouble in many cities.

Credit card seems too much...have not seen that anywhere.

As for playgrounds etc, I guess this is to do with China being still lower income + much more densely populated.

> Earlier Singapore used to have proxy server for websites but for a long time, that is gone but I guess that's cos they have found other ways to check if they need to.

They probably had to do away with it, with HTTPS becoming more and more mainstream.

Singapore still blocks numerous sites at ISP DNS level:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Si...