A Singaporean blog was taken down by Google on Thursday for its near-racial and discriminatory blog posts against immigrant Filipino workers, according to The Global Dispatch.

A spokesperson for Google said that the removal of the site was against Google's Blogger policy on hate speech.

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The blog, "Blood Stained Singapore," had initially caught the attention of the Philippine Embassy in Singapore for its anti-Filipino content and said that the views it posted "do not reflect the general belief of the inhabitants of Singapore."

The Philippine embassy immediately called for Singaporean authorities to take action against the anonymous blogger, claiming that the posts could be a danger to personal safety and security.

A blog post on June 16, titled "Filipino infestation in Singapore-5 point guide to showing displeasure without breaking the law," cited ways how to humiliate Filipinos working in Singapore such as "accidentally" shoving them, ridiculing Filipino waiters, regurgitating Philippine fast food Jollibee meals and not calling an ambulance when they get into a traffic accident.

The blogger also wrote that "Filipinos have long overstayed their welcome, and they must be advised in no less clearer terms that we are growing intolerant of their presence."

The Singapore government has allowed an influx of foreign workers in recent years, displacing most of its workforce and replacing them with lower wage immigrant workers willing to work shifting hours, said Singaporean with Filipino blood, Clement Mesenas, to The Independent Singapore.

"This results in a lot of unhappiness and anger towards foreigners," Mesenas said.

The Filipino workers in Singapore, however, bore the brunt of the blame despite the presence of immigrant workers from other countries.

According to the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA), the number of other nationalities working in Singapore is larger than Filipinos working there. The POEA cited a report by the Indian High Commission that as of 2012, there are some 400,000 Indian workers in Singapore, while the Philippines only has 172,690 workers.

Mesenas speculates that this may be attributed to Filipinos' visibility in the white collar workforce.

While Bangladeshis, Chinese and Indians are more visible in construction work as laborers, most of the Filipino workers in Singapore have jobs in "architecture, IT and food and beverage sectors," he said.

Some Singaporeans, including the country's manpower minister Tan Chuan Jun, praised Google for taking the blog down, the Times of India reported.

"Vile and vicious blogs like this do not reflect who we are as a people," Tan wrote in his Facebook.

But some are concerned that the takedown had violated freedom of speech as evidenced from a comment on Channel News Asia's Facebook that read, "Hooray for a democratic country which forcefully shuts the mouth of her citizens!"

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