Category: Laws of our land

“This is not what I meant by videoconferencing!” – mr brown on 5 and Mr Miyagi on CNA mr brown and myself were interviewed by Mediacorp news last week and our segments were screened tonight separately on Ch 5 and CNA respectively. We were asked our views as regards blogging and podcasting about the upcoming…

In between having to work, I thought idly about why the prosecutors chose to charge the two bloggers/forummers under the Sedition Act. One of the first thoughts that came to mind was ‘what about the Religious Harmony Act’? (The other thought was, ‘wah lao, now damn crowded, better wait until 2pm to have lunch). At…

Excerpt: Bloggers react to news of charge against 2 for ‘racist rants’ TWO bloggers were charged on Monday under the Sedition Act for allegedly racist comments made on an online forum and on a website. Naturally, this has sent ripples through the blogging community. Read more at TODAYonline. (PDF version here). Technorati Tags: blog, sedition,…

The New Paper: Simply electric! Lordy, this matter has consumed me. But before I go further, there’s one thing that I have to be mindful of when discussing the case. Channelnews Asia called the other night to tell me that the names of the offending websites had been taken down from their news article. I…

A lot of us (me included, though I’ve suspected for awhile) found out this morning that if you make a racist comment on a forum or a blog and you can be charged under the Sedition Act. In fact, there are a variety of things you could do on your blog that might be construed…