(Reuters) - Human Rights Watch said on Friday that Singapore is undercutting its status as a financial centre by expanding media censorship to the web and urged the city-state's government to withdraw the new licensing requirement for online news sites.
Singapore's licensing scheme casts a chill over its "robust and free-wheeling" online communities and will limit Singaporeans' access to independent media, said Cynthia Wong, senior Internet researcher at Human Rights Watch.
"Websites will be forced into the role of private censors on behalf of the government," Wong said. "Singapore is placing its status as a world-class financial centre at clear risk by extending its record of draconian media censorship to the digital world." Full story
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