This is the google drive link to a copy of the Green Paper submitted to Parliament asking for the formation of a Select Committee to look into deliberate "Fake News";
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TdR_zzRmht4hYclqYzZMjC99SkKb-mMW/view
Read it and you will see it has everything reported across the World from Russians influencing the US Elections to misinformation during the Brexit Campaign. The only thing missing is the kitchen sink and Aunty Ho's latest flips flops. Nothing profound just a cut and paste plus edit of events on fake news.
For Singapore, the paper talks not about foreign actors which dominates the examples for other countries but more on our local political scene. Old man's actions against Singapore Herald and Eastern Sun in the 70s (surprisingly very old stuff) to the Japanese girl and her Singaporean boyfriend running the OZ website and pushing out fake news on Thaipusam and the Filipino community here are the main examples cited..
SBF the terribly notorious site that impinged the character of the Minister has been left out or not alleged to be involved in any fake news - so I guess SBF shoots out more facts than fiction about this government. Or the Minister did not want to raise an unpleasant personal past of his infamous indiscretion.
So what exactly is the ask? Is Trump's troubles being used to push out more draconian laws?
We already sent the Japanese girl (pregnant when she went to Prison) and her Singaporean husband to jail on existing laws. We either bankrupted or crippled Singapore opposition figures and activists with our interpretation of defamation, slander and what else with the Singapore courts. We recently regulated blogs and forums with focusing on political content that the likes of Alex Au had to go quiet.
As to foreign actors - this is within the ambit of our Intelligence Services plus legal avenues in regards to Social Media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Old man famously crippled foreign blue chip publications' circulation with the likes of the Economist and WSJ with existing laws and regulations and they folded and behaved to Old Man's standard of the "Truth" If our Intelligence Services are good enough to trail SIA Pilot Ryan Goh's young daughter attending school in quiet Perth to a convenience store or Francis Seow's spend on his Amex Card in the US, surely they can do the same to contain foreign actors or even locals who generate misinformation without the need for a additional laws. After all it was out Intelligence Services that provided the hard evidence to imprison Jim Nicholson, the CIA's most senior staff for espionage.
What exactly is Shanmugam hoping to achieve knowing full well that this Government has every means to cripple anyone who even mildly attempted to say something against the PAP narrative. Look at how they crushed one time retired school teacher who wrote 2 articles asking for change in the political engagement of citizens. Not once in the 2 articles was there a misrepresentation of facts. Just that she wrote her concerns as a genuine citizen keen to contribute to her country and society. Instead they demanded she stand for elections which is bizarre when you realise they could not pole holes in both her essays.
How about stiffening the laws and finding the courage to prosecute civil servants and GLC employees who are engaged in multi-million dollars corruption over 2 decades How about naming and shaming civil servants and GLC staff involved in gross negligence such as unnecessary 8 death of patients in SGH who ultimately came under the cluster management of a Cabinet Minister's wife. How about a Select Committee for these much more egregious conduct where the AG or the laws have been silent. Or has bribery now joined the once famous "gambling taboo" and is now cast in the same vein as something economically important for Singapore's survival.
Until the Senior Management executives of Keppel are prosecuted in court, this Government will continue to be the laughing stock where governance and the rule of law are concerned.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TdR_zzRmht4hYclqYzZMjC99SkKb-mMW/view
Read it and you will see it has everything reported across the World from Russians influencing the US Elections to misinformation during the Brexit Campaign. The only thing missing is the kitchen sink and Aunty Ho's latest flips flops. Nothing profound just a cut and paste plus edit of events on fake news.
For Singapore, the paper talks not about foreign actors which dominates the examples for other countries but more on our local political scene. Old man's actions against Singapore Herald and Eastern Sun in the 70s (surprisingly very old stuff) to the Japanese girl and her Singaporean boyfriend running the OZ website and pushing out fake news on Thaipusam and the Filipino community here are the main examples cited..
SBF the terribly notorious site that impinged the character of the Minister has been left out or not alleged to be involved in any fake news - so I guess SBF shoots out more facts than fiction about this government. Or the Minister did not want to raise an unpleasant personal past of his infamous indiscretion.
So what exactly is the ask? Is Trump's troubles being used to push out more draconian laws?
We already sent the Japanese girl (pregnant when she went to Prison) and her Singaporean husband to jail on existing laws. We either bankrupted or crippled Singapore opposition figures and activists with our interpretation of defamation, slander and what else with the Singapore courts. We recently regulated blogs and forums with focusing on political content that the likes of Alex Au had to go quiet.
As to foreign actors - this is within the ambit of our Intelligence Services plus legal avenues in regards to Social Media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Old man famously crippled foreign blue chip publications' circulation with the likes of the Economist and WSJ with existing laws and regulations and they folded and behaved to Old Man's standard of the "Truth" If our Intelligence Services are good enough to trail SIA Pilot Ryan Goh's young daughter attending school in quiet Perth to a convenience store or Francis Seow's spend on his Amex Card in the US, surely they can do the same to contain foreign actors or even locals who generate misinformation without the need for a additional laws. After all it was out Intelligence Services that provided the hard evidence to imprison Jim Nicholson, the CIA's most senior staff for espionage.
What exactly is Shanmugam hoping to achieve knowing full well that this Government has every means to cripple anyone who even mildly attempted to say something against the PAP narrative. Look at how they crushed one time retired school teacher who wrote 2 articles asking for change in the political engagement of citizens. Not once in the 2 articles was there a misrepresentation of facts. Just that she wrote her concerns as a genuine citizen keen to contribute to her country and society. Instead they demanded she stand for elections which is bizarre when you realise they could not pole holes in both her essays.
How about stiffening the laws and finding the courage to prosecute civil servants and GLC employees who are engaged in multi-million dollars corruption over 2 decades How about naming and shaming civil servants and GLC staff involved in gross negligence such as unnecessary 8 death of patients in SGH who ultimately came under the cluster management of a Cabinet Minister's wife. How about a Select Committee for these much more egregious conduct where the AG or the laws have been silent. Or has bribery now joined the once famous "gambling taboo" and is now cast in the same vein as something economically important for Singapore's survival.
Until the Senior Management executives of Keppel are prosecuted in court, this Government will continue to be the laughing stock where governance and the rule of law are concerned.
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