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Singapore bloggers wary of news site license scheme
By Alex Au Waipang/CPJ Guest Blogger on June 4, 2013 10:48 AM ET
Singapore's Internet community is in backlash since the government announced on May 28 a new licensing scheme for "news websites"--a term it did not define--arguing that digital news platforms ought to be regulated on par with offline media. The government said the scheme would take effect June 1.
The Internet community is suspicious about the true intent behind the new rules. A group of bloggers has called for an online blackout Thursday, and are organizing a protest demonstration for Saturday.
In the announcement, 10 sites were initially singled out for licensing, with seven belonging to pro-government Singapore Press Holdings, and two to government-owned Mediacorp. The only independent site asked to submit to licensing was Yahoo Singapore. However, the rules as written allow the government to require other sites, including foreign ones, to register if they meet these criteria: (1) report an average of at least one article per week on Singapore's news and current affairs over a period of two months, and (2) are visited by at least 50,000 unique IP addresses from Singapore each month over a period of two months.
Many Internet users consider the threshold very low, and are thus alarmed that the rules can easily be extended to their individual and joint blogs.
Under the scheme, licensed sites must take down content within 24 hours of an order by the Media Development Authority (MDA), an arm of the Ministry of Communications and Information. As a condition of the license, site owners must put up a US$39,500 bond.
The new rules follow the wide-ranging Broadcasting Act which makes it an offense to disobey the government's orders as to content, with fines of up to US$16,000, and imprisonment of up to two years' jail.
In the face of the outcry, the MDA started backpedalling within days of the announcement. "An individual publishing views on current affairs and trends on his/her personal website or blog does not amount to news reporting," said a post by the MDA on its Facebook page.
This only added to the controversy when it was pointed out how absurd it was for policy to be made on the fly by means of Facebook statements. What legal standing do such statements have? What assurance that such statements are not rescinded by subsequent postings on social media?
Minister of Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim stressed that the new license does not signify any change in content standards. Writing on his Facebook page on May 31, he said, "Under the current class licensing regime, content that breaches our content standards--whether it offends good taste or incites racial or religious hatred--already needs to be taken down. There will be no change in these standards."
This raises more questions than it answers, for it draws attention to the fact that the government already has a license scheme, under which all websites (though "all" has never been defined) are considered automatically licensed and subject to MDA's orders. Why then is there a need to create another license? The key difference seems to be the bond, but exactly why that should now be necessary is unclear.
Nor are there convincing examples from recent years of online content that was unequivocally damaging to the public interest. There have been the occasional bouts of offensive speech against religious or foreign national groups--there is a rising anti-immigration lobby--but these have been countered by other citizens online, and in a few cases, the government used ordinary laws to prosecute offenders.
These laws and their uses are themselves controversial. The Sedition Act has been used to prosecute racist and religiously inflammatory speech, and contempt of court laws have been used to curb comments criticizing Singapore's judicial system.
The writer was himself compelled to take down postings that asked pointed questions of our court processes in 2012. The law minister and prime minister also demanded that he take down postings referring to them or face defamation proceedings. Defamation law in Singapore is well known for bankrupting opposition politicians.
More recently, cartoonist Leslie Chew was arrested by the police for an allegedly racist cartoon strip and another one that was critical of the judiciary.
The Singapore government has for 50 years used the spectre of racial and religious conflict to justify curbs on civil rights and political dissent. They are doing it again with this announcement.
When asked for examples of content that would be banned by the new license rules, the government mentioned its request to Google to block a YouTube video, "The Innocence of Muslims," from Singapore IP addresses. This video disparaged the Prophet Muhammad and led to widespread demonstrations in several Muslim countries.
Google voluntarily agreed to do so, which suggests that reasonable requests would be acceded to. Why then the need for the new licensing scheme--which the government said could be applied to foreign-based websites as well? Presumably, in the event that a foreign hosted service like Google refused to take down content, the government imagines it could require them to take up a Singapore license and put up a bond. Many Singaporeans consider this laughable.
Despite citing this example, which was clearly one about content, Yaacob said in the aforementioned Facebook posting that the new rules are not about content. He then shot himself in the foot by telling BBC in a video interview that the aim of the new rules is "to protect the interest of the ordinary Singaporean" and "to make sure they read the 'right' things." He used finger quotes for the word 'right.' What is that, if not about controlling content?
Within days, challenged on blogs and social media, the purpose and scope of the new rules have drowned in confusion. This inability to stand up to scrutiny is very telling. It indicates that the new rules have not been rigorously conceptualized, which is not entirely surprising. Given the authoritarian nature of the Singapore government, the new scheme likely grew out of its compulsive need to amass tools of control to cope with various imagined scenarios of dissent. Bureaucrats tasked to draw up the details were left trying to find excuses for the new scheme to cloak its true purpose.
Another theory doing the rounds is that the new license regime is targeted at Yahoo, other foreign media organizations, and any future local business wanting to set up an online newspaper. The fear is that they will take market share from the pro-government media and their news sites. This new scheme is meant to induce the same degree of self-censorship and pro-government bias in Yahoo and any new venture, and thus help preserve the government's hold on power.
Editor's note: CPJ asked Alan Soon, Yahoo's country manager for Singapore and Southeast Asia managing editor, for comment on the new licensing plan. He pointed us to this post.
Singaporean Alex Au Waipang is author of the independent blog Yawning Bread.
I think there is an error RE fines: " fines of up to US$16,000, "
The correct value is 200k SGD. I suppose 160k USD? Not 16k
Anonymous June 4, 2013 11:49:45 AM ET
Thank you for your comment. I believe our guest blogger is referring to the Broadcasting Act, Chapter 28, 16(3) Directions to Authority which can be found here: http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/home.w3p
(3) Any broadcasting licensee and any other person responsible for the broadcasting of any programme prohibited by a direction issued under subsection (1) shall each be guilty of an offence and shall each be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.
Elana Beiser
CPJ Senior Editor
Elana Beiser June 4, 2013 12:52:42 PM ET
How lucky the people of Singapore are to have a government that masquerades under the front of being a democratic regime but is no altruistic communist at its core.
Just a further example of how globally the rights of people to different views, opinions, and criticism that highlight the immoral, unethical or corrupt practices of officialdom are being eroded by those who wish to maintain power at any cost.
The sad thing is that those in opposition who decry such moves almost always fail to repeal such laws and Acts when/if they are in a position to do so.
All of the freedoms that people fought and died for in the past are slowly being eroded by small groups of power greedy people globally and the most alarming thing is that their actions are being greeted with apathy by so many.
John June 4, 2013 11:20:26 PM ET
Looks like that never learn, in 1965+ till 90s they "exile" opponents, 90s to 2000 they sue people who oppose them, 2013 try to control internet media. Looks like they really live in thier elite world out of touch with the masses. LETS SEE IN TGR NEXT GE :-)
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Usain Bolt reacts to racial abuse of England players
Renowned Athlete, Usain Bolt, has reacted to the 'horrible' racist abuse aimed at England youngsters, Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho after Euro 2020 final loss to Italy, claiming that if he was in charge of the team he would not have made the youngsters take the decisive spot-kick.
All three youngsters were subjected to vile racist abuses online after missing their penalties at Wembley last Sunday but Olympic champion, Bolt has leapt to the defence of the youngsters.
"First of all that's horrible to know – for me it's very tough to see these things,' he said when questioned by reporters on Thursday, July 15.
"As an African and a Black person, I can tell it must be rough on them and you can't blame these guys, they don't make the decision of who takes the penalties.'
Bolt claimed he would not have chosen the trio to step up to take penalties given their young age. Saka is 19, Rashford is 23 and Sancho is just 21.
'I saw that they came on in the last minute. As a coach I would not have put somebody on at that point and give a tough kick to a 19-year-old, that is a lot of pressure.
'It's football, you win some, you lose some and it's tough for you to lose. I've gone through it with my team, but I won't curse anybody or try to put them down when it comes to race or anything.'
Bolt added: 'We are all going to be upset when you miss a penalty, but when it gets to race then, it's going to be a problem.
'It (racial abuse) was very unfair and I can't believe this is where football is headed, I've loved football through my entire career, I've followed all these players so it's tough to see something like that going on.
'You can be upset at a person for missing because we are human, but if you're going to bring race into it, then it has no place in football or just in general.'

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Todd Warriner:
SURVIVING TORONTO
I enjoyed playing in Toronto. I think now it's a little bit — I've said this before, I started with Pat Burns, and then we had Mike Murphy in there but we also had Pat Quinn.
Owners,Toronto Maple Leafs / Jun-2015
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Concussions,Fighting,Retirement,Toronto Maple Leafs / May-2015
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THE PRICE OF PLAYING
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Toronto Maple Leafs / Apr-2015
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Draft,Toronto Maple Leafs / Apr-2015
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Montreal Canadiens,Toronto Maple Leafs / Apr-2015
Gilbert Dionne:
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This morning while on the phone with McAfee's Elite Team of Tech Support (read: complete mouth breathers) I had an idea — how President Bush could have saved the economy, created jobs, play Santa Claus, and put American researchers at the top of the class.
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