Worse than 1984
The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act tabled in Singapore's Parliament on Monday threatens to restrict free speech in the country even further. It effectively gives any Minister the power to decide what is fact and to demand corrections or removals of statements that he deems to be against the public interest....
Should we stop voting for the PAP?
What we need to be concerned about is this - the PAP has taken control over government for the past 60 years, by using fear to tie us down to keep voting for them. They tell us that Singapore will collapse without them, our homes will collapse without them, and that we won't be able to earn enough without them. And so we fear...
Even Lee Kuan Yew did not have the audacity to give his ministers such sweeping powers
Who would have thought that post-Lee Kuan Yew, the People’s Action Party would become even more audacious and autocratic? While he introduced a litany of laws, he always sought to rationalise them and not once did he defend a law by simply arguing that there were provisions for appeal and redress through the courts. Which...
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