Petition for the immediate withdrawal of the Licensing Regime

Sinkie

/ #198 No to Suppression of Free Speech

2013-06-06 04:52

For Minister Yaacob Ibrahim to cite the British example to justify Singapore's MDA in requiring on-site comments to register & place a $50k bond with the Singapore Government is TOTALLY misleading.

The British Parliament/Govt REJECTS the LEGISLATIVE approach and has settled on relying on a Royal Chartered institution to bring about a modicum of journalistic integrity in the British PRESS and TV media ONLY, and NOT socio-politcal websites like TR EMERITUS/theonlinecitizen etc.

The British approach ONLY comes AFTER the NEWS MEDIA like Murdoch's News of the World and other MEDIA companies were found GUILTY of CRIMINAL practices like the HACKING into PERSONAL mobile phones and other means of modern communications - FB, TWITTER etc......and BRIBING the police and public officials.

All of the said CRIMINAL activities adversely affected the lives and public policies and had caused sufferings and loss of personal privacy.

NONE of the deplorable practices of the British media had ever happen in Singapore.

For Yaacob Ibrahim/Singapore Govt to cite the British example only shows their moral bankruptcy.