TR EMERITUS

I was in parliament yesterday expecting the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation bill to be passed. The absence of so many PAP ministers and MPs however cast a doubt in my mind. Wouldn’t they want a full house to vote for the bill? It would be a great censorship tool for them when the general election nears? From... 

“The Bill, therefore, recognises that platforms that are closed are not necessarily private. They can be used not only for personal and private communications but also to communicate with hundreds or thousands of strangers at a time.” So exactly how does a small encrypted closed private discussion group become a platform... 

I never tot of Devan Nair as a dissident until last week, His critical comments of one LKY and the PAP, I put down to the bitterness of being pensioned-off quietly, and then of being publicly humiliated when he complained of being pensioned-off. Devan Nair’s fall from grace and very public humiliation was to me poetic justice...