How Stupid Yakult undermined the very rules he is pushing for

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

In their eagerness to allay the concerns of netizens, Dr Yaacob and MDA may have undermined the logic of the new licensing regime.

If, in the past 17 years, MDA had not instructed any websites to take down content critical of the Government or a minister and had given instructions to remove religiously offensive content only once, the licensing regime has been working remarkably well.

The Government wants to remind netizens that the Internet is not exempt from the rules of society, but the Internet has been abiding by the rules of society, save for one exception in 17 years (excluding for instances of pornographic content or online solicitations for sex and sex chats, which netizens don't really care about)!

Dr Yaacob did not seem to appreciate the silliness and emptiness of his statement that personal blogs would not be affected if they did not consistently contain any matter of public interest or did not morph into news sites. Any personal blog that does not consistently contain any matter of public interest is irrelevant to society at large. The licensing of any personal blog that morphs into a news site begs the question as to when a personal blog becomes, in the eyes of MDA, a news site.

- http://refocusing.blogspot.sg/2013/0...overnment.html


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