MDA wants $50,000.00 from Sam?

[zhihau]

You are the first one they knew!

am so bloody screwed

 

[Simbian]

This is probably to target and bring in line big news sites like Yahoo!, etc.

Good luck to the authorities enforcing it though.

 

[zhihau]

Good luck to the authorities enforcing it though.

must admit this joke is sure going to be all time favorite

 

[JuliaScissors]

Re: New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month

Fucking joke.

 

[chootchiew]

How do they get the money from? Do they even know who Sam is?

Cham liao..1 fine day Ah Sam might sell user info to gov Bros better watch out. Luckily I neber scold cheng hu. phew !

 

[wendychan]

He is a favoured son of the PAP.

very good..... some people love to pontificate and be lauded for it
favourred all right

 

[PrinceCharming]

He is a favoured son of the PAP.

Has your claim been corroborated with other independent facts?

If your assertion is true, it means scroobal's cover's been blown. Of what use is he to PAP then?

What does PAP do, under normal circumstances, with people whom it thinks have outlived their usefulness?

 

[Sinkie]

This is not a news website. It is just a low-grade forum.

 

[winnipegjets]

This is not a news website. It is just a low-grade forum.

Is that the PAP's opinion?

 

[IamTiong]

This is an attempt to shut down sites that are critical of the PAP like TRE, transition.org. Time for them to dissolve and resurface anonymously.

erm....dont think they have 50k readers

 

[bryanlim1972]

Re: New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month

How will they know the number of readers in each website? I suspect PAP want to gather the total number of populace surfing internet to come out with new strategy for the next election, thus they schemed such licence to feed into govt coffer. How come no debate or approval from the public about this new licensing? Another policy came out from whims and fancies of PAP game.

you do not debate a directive from the top. debates are meant for inconsequential matters. you think this is a WP run country is it???

 

[Sinkie]

Is that the PAP's opinion?

That's your father's opinion...that means me.

 

[swampfire]

this is going to be yet another futile attempt by the establishment to tame the internet beast. they realised this when they tried to block porn websites, which did not work. So they just do a token block. Now this rubbish again. They even want to control foreign websites that report on singapore. The pap is truly staffed by idiots in ivory towers.

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

Re: New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month

The idiot who fucked up rain forecast n prevention now wants to control the internet///////////
Why ae we paying super money to get such idiot?

 

[LeMans2011]

Sam going to close down very soon... With so many ppl fark the government here, 50k not enough to pay the fine..

New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month
Singapore | Updated today at 05:29 PM
By Tessa Wong

From June 1, websites that regularly report Singapore news and have significant reach will require individual licences to operate.

Currently, most websites are covered automatically under a class licence scheme. But the Media Development Authority (MDA) will require websites to be individually licensed once they meet two criteria.

These are: if they report an average of at least one article per week on Singapore's news and current affairs over a period of two months, and have at least 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore each month over a period of two months. The individual licenses have to be renewed every year.

Under the new framework, these sites must also put up a performance bond of $50,000, similar to that required for niche TV broadcasters.

50,000 visitors? SBF has barely 50 visitors.

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

How do they get the money from? Do they even know who Sam is?

Sam has a record when he worked for ST......... he was cleared by ISD too

 

[Leongsam]

50,000 visitors? SBF has barely 50 visitors.

Based on my stats script, I have about 30,000 unique visits daily.

Whether that translates into more than 50,000 visitors per month is a question that I can't answer as it could be the same 30,000 people visiting daily for the whole month. :p

 

[Satyr]

Re: New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month

TOC is an interesting case. it is already gazetted right? whatever it means...

what is MDA gonna do with the money? make another bad video or sponsor another Ilo Ilo for Cannes?

[video=youtube;nngYqmulLJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nngYqmulLJI[/video]

longest 4 1/2 minutes of my life. they intended it to amuse and instruct. We can agree it did both.

 

[jw5]

am so bloody screwed

don't worry, leongsam was the second one and he's still around, trying to make more money...................

 

[Satyr]

Re: New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month

I want to see how those idiots are going to implement it.

The MDA should hire Al Gore as a consultant. Since he started the Internet, maybe he knows how to stop it.