MDA replies: New rules to ensure regulatory consistency between traditional & online news media
I had written an email to the MDA regarding their announcement and subsequent implementation of the new "licensing framework". You can read the email here. The MDA had finally replied after almost one week. Please see below the MDA's response, and my respond after. Dear Mr Ngerng, We would like to clarify that the new licensing...
MDA’s absurd pretence of parity
Singapore’s Media Development Authority have gone to some lengths in an attempt to downplay the chilling effect on freedom of expression likely to result from the recently announced licensing regime for news websites. One of the more peculiar claims was that the changes are intended to bring about “parity” between online...
The real reason behind the Internet Crackdown
Tan Wah Piow Lee Hsien Loong in his first national day speech in 2004 as Prime Minister invoked Chairman Mao’s “let the hundred flowers bloom”. He added “… we are going to do is to open up the Speakers’ Corner where you can go and make any speech you like and we are going to say, ‘Well, if you want to go there...
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