The New York-based organisation has asked the Singapore Government to 'significantly revise it to comply with international protections for freedom of speech'
“a blatant violation of free speech and an affront to freedom of the internet,”
The bill proposes that domain ministers can decide whether to take action under two conditions: when a false statement of a fact has been communicated in Singapore through the Internet, and when it is in the public interest to intervene. If an online website published three different falsehoods against public interest in the preceding six months, the authorities can declare it as one that repeatedly spreads falsehoods and can cut off its ability to profit without shutting it down.
Earlier, the Asia Internet Coalition – an industry association made up of leading internet and technology companies, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple, eBay, Expedia and Paypal – said that this sort of “overreaching bill” could pose a risk to the freedoms of expression and speech.that the enforcement of this legislation will not be at the expense of the benefits that public debate and exchange of ideas can bring.
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