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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]
Singapore Dao Times Singdaotimes.com inauthentic news website "potential hostile information threat" Broadcasting Act October 2024 [15] [16] Today in Singapore Todayinsg.com inauthentic news website "potential hostile information threat" Broadcasting Act October 2024 [15] [16] Lion City Life Lioncitylife.com inauthentic news website
The Censorship Review Committee (CRC) meets every ten years to "review and update censorship objectives and principles to meet the long-term interests of our society". [4] The CRC was most recently reconvened in 2009 and made some 80 recommendations the following year, most of which were accepted. [5]
As Hollywood and Netflix include more queer characters and stories in their content, Singapore’s censorship rules are not sustainable, says lifestyle editor Teng Yong Ping.
In the early years of Singapore’s independence (from the British Empire in 1963 and from Malaysia in 1965), Tan Chay Wa had been an armed activist, possibly a Communist, who rejected the two ...
Fellow blogger Mr Miyagi subsequently resigned from his column for Today. This was followed by Today newspaper chief executive and editor-in-chief Mano Sabnani's resignation in November 2006. The action fuelled anger over the Internet due to the perceived heavy-handedness action taken by the government over criticisms. [29]
Nicole Saad Bembridge, an attorney for the internet companies’ trade association NetChoice, told Yahoo News that a Supreme Court ruling in July — which upheld a web designer’s right to ...
Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.