COMMENT - Fakenews bill: Time for lawyers, MPs to stand up and be counted Singapore
The Lee Kuan Yew fingerprint was all over the parliamentary statement Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam delivered last Monday on the need for a different approach to tackle the scourge of hate and offensive speech.
The 90-minute speech was a lead up to the first reading of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act , which will grant the government wide-ranging powers to act against what it deems to be fake news. It is the sixth condition that has upset and unsettled many. The proposed law allows any minister, without any oversight and check, to act against those whom they believe are guilty of contravening the law. This is unprecedented in modern Singapore’s legal history. Let us not forget that we are talking about human beings, not some supreme saints, and they are more than capable of erring. Even saints, as shown in the sexual abuse cases in the Vatican, are not really saints.
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