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Socio-political website The Online Citizen's (TOC) class licence to operate its site and social media channels and accounts have been cancelled by the authorities.
The Online Citizen is a blogging platform based in Taiwan. Founded in December 2006 by Andrew Loh and Remy Choo Zheng Xi in Singapore , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it is known for its political activism. [ 3 ] It describes itself as a group of advocacy journalists who report on topics not generally covered by the mainstream media.
An Act to prevent the electronic communication in Singapore of false statements of fact, to suppress support for and counteract the effects of such communication, to safeguard against the use of online accounts for such communication and for information manipulation, to enable measures to be taken to enhance transparency of online political advertisements, and for related matters.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was awarded a total of $370,000 in damages in his defamation suit against The Online Citizen editor Terry Xu and his writer.
Internet censorship in Singapore is carried out by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Internet services provided by the three major Internet service providers (ISPs) are subject to regulation by the MDA, which requires blocking of a symbolic number of websites containing "mass impact objectionable" material, including Playboy, YouPorn and Ashley Madison. [1]
Chen rose to prominence as a strong advocate for Amos Yee, [3] a Singaporean student who had been arrested and imprisoned for publishing materials (depicting Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew in a negative way, and also criticizing Christianity and Islam) that the government of Singapore considered to be insulting.
The movie, premiering this month, is based on real events in the early 1990s, when a group of young people in Cuba were looking for freedom from government repression.
Dominic Puthucheary was detained in February 1963 during Operation Coldstore [9] [10] but was released ten months later and barred from entering Singapore until 1990, when he was elected MP for Nibong Tebal in Penang, Malaysia. [11] Puthucheary was born in Malaysia when his parents were living there. [12] Puthucheary became a Singapore citizen ...