Discourse

Official Reply from Singapore Government on the Proposals for Internet Freedom

For those who wonder about the progress of the proposal, Ms Bhavani from MICA representing the Minister of Information, Communication and the Arts have responded to us on the proposals and said that they will review the suggestions made on the proposals. There is a ST report "Government looking at Lighter Touch"  by Zakir Hussain...

Proposals for Internet Freedom in Singapore

Proposals for Internet Freedom in Singapore" is now submitted to Dr Lee Boon Yang, the Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts. For those who want to a download of the paper, you can download it from here.

Interpreting the “Light Touch”

Recently, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Second Minister For Information, Communications And The Arts gave a speech entitled “Navigating the Age of the Internet, Singapore and the New Media” in the Foreign Correspondents Association lunch time talk. In his speech, he discussed the difficulty in regulating cyberspace and reiterated the “light touch” approach that the government...