
Who will be the next victim?
This notorious law, POFMA or Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act, passed with much 'wayang' in May 2019, has claimed its third victim, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) yesterday. I hope the party will give the Minister of Manpower Josephine Teo a good fight. In a matter of three weeks, our million dollar...

Rather than invoke POFMA, wouldn’t it be better if MOM can come out and clarify?
In the recent POFMA episode directed at SDP, the government claims there are factual errors on the SDP’s part as it states that the number of local PMET’s has been increasing not decreasing. But let’s drill down a little into that blanket surface claim. As of end 2018, Singapore demographic data states that there was...

Why an impartial ombudsman is needed for POFMA cases
In 3 weeks, the PAP government has issued 3 POFMA notices, all directed to the opposition and their critics. POFMA violates a very fundamental rule of law - that no one should be judge or jury in his own case. When this PAP government was coming out with all sorts of reasons to enact POFMA, it said that this draconian legislation...
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