Petition for the immediate withdrawal of the Licensing Regime

the definition of online news sites is rather grey...which could include a blog about reviews on just food, fashion or anything not related to politics. Those who are running blogs, online magazines, etc, should be worried now - even if they are not in the list of 10 mainstream media sites yet. MDA definitions of the terms are rather grey.

Besides its intention to regulate freedom of expression, it's more fishy that they even require a banker guarantee of S$50K to be put up by such sites. This reminds of the $4.6 billion losses made on a single investment by Temasek Holdings (GLC by the Lee Empire), wonder if it got to inspire the decision of implementing such ridiculous media regime as a means to take more money from the citizens of Singapore who are the taxpayers - in order to make up for the losses incurred by Temasek Holdings. Failure to remove any content (within 24 hours) that has been alleged to violate the sedition act - would have the $50K forfeited - quite similiar to the logic of having S$5000 forfeited upon failure of reporting a missing NTS worker (which is a breach of MOM regulations).

Btw, I'm just making assumptions about this new MDA licensing regime. The fact that it was passed down with ambiguous guidelines and requirements without the consensus of the public and ordinary citizens raises eyebrows.