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13-12-2013, 11:10 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
The announcement by the website Breakfast Network that it was closing down because of “onerous” government requirements or conditions is the latest in a slew of seemingly arbitrary and confusing enforcement of the law, and implementation of rules and regulations by the authorities.
This is worrying and disconcerting, as such irrational behaviour by the government and its agencies lead to a slide in public trust of our public institutions and the law itself. Ironically, it is this erosion of public trust which had been the government’s concerns not too long ago.
The indiscriminate and arbitrary manner in which the Media Development Authority (MDA) implements its rules and regulations is reminiscent of the way the government itself enforce the anti-gay sex law, Section 377a, in Singapore.
On the one hand, the MDA and the minister for communications and information insist that the government has not “deviated” from its “light touch” approach to the Internet and its online practitioners, such as bloggers.
On the other hand, it apparently has come up with a rather onerous set of forms which websites who are asked to register must fill up. And according to Breakfast Network, the numerous registration forms it was required to submit to the MDA were different from the ones posted on the MDA’s own website. The Independent, another site asked to register by the MDA, is believed to also have received the different forms.
Why such opacity? Why is the MDA acting so surreptitiously? Why does it not be upfront with the public about the kinds of forms it requires website operators to fill?
- http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013...irrationality/ (http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/12/breakfast-network-latest-victim-of-government-irrationality/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?170376-MDA-has-different-registration-forms-for-different-websites&goto=newpost).
The announcement by the website Breakfast Network that it was closing down because of “onerous” government requirements or conditions is the latest in a slew of seemingly arbitrary and confusing enforcement of the law, and implementation of rules and regulations by the authorities.
This is worrying and disconcerting, as such irrational behaviour by the government and its agencies lead to a slide in public trust of our public institutions and the law itself. Ironically, it is this erosion of public trust which had been the government’s concerns not too long ago.
The indiscriminate and arbitrary manner in which the Media Development Authority (MDA) implements its rules and regulations is reminiscent of the way the government itself enforce the anti-gay sex law, Section 377a, in Singapore.
On the one hand, the MDA and the minister for communications and information insist that the government has not “deviated” from its “light touch” approach to the Internet and its online practitioners, such as bloggers.
On the other hand, it apparently has come up with a rather onerous set of forms which websites who are asked to register must fill up. And according to Breakfast Network, the numerous registration forms it was required to submit to the MDA were different from the ones posted on the MDA’s own website. The Independent, another site asked to register by the MDA, is believed to also have received the different forms.
Why such opacity? Why is the MDA acting so surreptitiously? Why does it not be upfront with the public about the kinds of forms it requires website operators to fill?
- http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013...irrationality/ (http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/12/breakfast-network-latest-victim-of-government-irrationality/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?170376-MDA-has-different-registration-forms-for-different-websites&goto=newpost).