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Communication Law and Regulation

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“Prohibition of Satellite TV and Temasek Holding being a Government Linked Company monopolize media to suppress opportunity for a serious competitor. “

Temasek Holding being a Government Linked Company monopolize media

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Figure 1. Major Investments in Temasek Holdings

“The ready use of defamation suits by the PAP against opponents and the fact that all domestic media are governmentcontrolled further limits the opportunity for a serious contest of ideas and scrutiny of the ruling party.”

Safeguard the racial and religious harmony of our society

Potentially adverse social effect of allowing households to install satellite dishes

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Negative influences are as perceived by the individual. There is simply no escape from all sorts of influences in the modern world where information are readily available at your fingertips. Being a 21st century global city, Singaporeans should be more than readily equipped to counter these

Watching TV increases awareness about outside world

“An average person spend 22,000 hours watching television… in the television age, constitutes “political reality”

The top 3-5 percent can handle this free-for-all, this clash of ideas but for the bulk of the population however, exposure to this is likely to have destabilizing social and political effects.

Directions by Minister: The Minister may, after consultation with a person to whom this section applies, give to that person such directions as he thinks fit as to the exercise by that person of its functions under this Act.

whom this section applies shall not disclose any directions given to him under subsection (1) or (2) if the Minister notifies him that the Minister is of the opinion that the disclosure of the directions is against the

If you're a foreign media in Singapore, then please stay out of Singapore politics because this is Singapore politics, it's for

CNN has even gone so far as to alert SCV of potentially sensitive material, as it did before screening coverage of the case involving U.S. teenager Michael Fay, who was found guilty of vandalizing cars in Singapore

political party. If we are successful in voicing what the PAP has not done, and people begin to dislike the PAP, is that 'objectionable

Ironically, while private satellite receivers are banned in Singapore, the island is used to beam services into the rest of Asia.

policymakers are committed to the transformation of the island economy into an information hub, trading in ideas rather than commodities. Yet Singapore's authoritarian leaders have no intention of surrendering political control in

Professor Garry Rodan Director Asia Research Centre Murdoch University

The PAP is wary about political competition with its own views -especially if those views are not advanced through formal political parties.

PAP seeks to curtail the development of an independent civil society within which PAP ideas can be robustly contested and

a political direction that increases the opportunities for Singaporeans to work cooperatively with the PAP to essentially refine and implement its own policy and ideological

of the media remains important: the PAP does not want to make it any easier for competing expressi ons to sidestep the now institutionalised limits on who can enter the political debate and on

“Prohibition of Satellite TV and Temasek Holding being a Government Linked Company monopolize media to suppress opportunity for a serious competitor. “