#FreeMyInternet – Hong Lim Park – 4-7pm – 8th June 2013

4 June 2013

The blogging community – collectively called #FreeMyInternet will be organising a protest and online blackout next week against the new licensing requirements imposed by the Media Development Authority, which requires “online news sites” to put up a “performance bond” of $50,000 and “comply within 24 hours to MDA’s directions to remove content that is found to be in breach of content standards”.

To RSVP, visit the Facebook event page below.

https://www.facebook.com/events/185882738236629/

#FreeMyInternet

https://www.facebook.com/FreeMyInternet

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Forum letter on MDA regulations

4 June 2013

Please see below for our letter to the Straits Times forum on the recent changes to the Broadcasting Act by the Media Development Authority.

http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/forum-letters/story/laws-already-exist-regulate-news-websites-20130604

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The framework of democracy is human rights law

4 June 2013

Democracy is more of a culture than a way of governing or a political system. It is a historical process that must go through its evolution. No country can be a quasi democracy. It is in fact democratic people that make a society democratic, says Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi

Read her article at the link below.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/shirin-ebadi/framework-of-democracy-is-human-rights-law

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