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Minister Yaacob used these examples of alleged misinformation to then accuse the online community of not speaking up while at the same time rejecting his Code of Conduct idea.
The insinuation here is that the online community wants its cake and eat it too. His attack seemed to be: the online community is unreasonable or even irresponsible.
But the minister is mistaken, and his argument is false or half-true.
The rejection of his Code of Conduct idea is not only from the online community – for even several members of the government-appointed 21-member Media Literacy Council (MLC) are not in favour of such a code, including its chairman, Mr Tan Cheng Han.
In an interview with the Straits Times last year, Mr Tan rejected the idea, saying that “regulating the Internet is not the solution.”
“Our Government is very pragmatic, and I think it knows that it can’t be done… I don’t think it was ever on the cards that netizens must comply or else face criminal sanctions,” he said.
- http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/07/yaacob-ibrahims-opportunism-and-cheap-shots/
The insinuation here is that the online community wants its cake and eat it too. His attack seemed to be: the online community is unreasonable or even irresponsible.
But the minister is mistaken, and his argument is false or half-true.
The rejection of his Code of Conduct idea is not only from the online community – for even several members of the government-appointed 21-member Media Literacy Council (MLC) are not in favour of such a code, including its chairman, Mr Tan Cheng Han.
In an interview with the Straits Times last year, Mr Tan rejected the idea, saying that “regulating the Internet is not the solution.”
“Our Government is very pragmatic, and I think it knows that it can’t be done… I don’t think it was ever on the cards that netizens must comply or else face criminal sanctions,” he said.
- http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/07/yaacob-ibrahims-opportunism-and-cheap-shots/
