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The Dishonourables choking Singapore with the Fake News laws are The Hollow Men. By making politicians the arbiters of truth, The Hollow Men are enacting political censorship of the worst kind. Eliot’s poem, “The Hollow Men”, begins with such people and their like-minded admirers addressing themselves: “We are the hollow... 

Will the whip be lifted for Parliament when it comes to voting on the Fake News bill? Parliament has everything to gain by showing its independence from the handful who have hijacked the executive to run their own agenda of exercising control over Singapore. We can only hope that Parliament goes beyond accusations cast against... 

On the infamous Fake News Bill and its low threshold for self-interested politicians, some helpful comments below. Senior Counsel Harpreet Singh Nehal and Dr Stephanie Neubronner, a research fellow with the National Security Studies Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies make these comments: “These...