OPINION: Could socio-political bloggers be the answer to PM Lee’s call - Cherian George


Yahoo! Singapore News, 16 Aug 2011
Lee Hsien Loong has called for online spaces where Singaporeans and the government can engage in more balanced, open and rational debate on issues. In the Prime Minister's National Day Rally speech, he noted the prevalence of "cowboy towns" in cyberspace, circulating "ridiculous untruths".
"But there must be places… where people recognise … are reliable, where you can have a open debate, where different views are expressed, but it's balanced, and if you go there you know that, well, to start off with you can assume that it will make some sense," he said Full story