lol...TOC asking MDA why it was not asked to pay $50k

[cheekenpie]

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20130530-426087.html

By Tessa Wong
Singapolitics
Thursday, May 30, 2013
The Online Citizen (TOC) has rebutted a claim by the Media Development Authority (MDA) that the site does not meet criteria for an individual license.


TOC on Wednesday morning published a screenshot of its statistics showing it received 171,601 unique visitors from April 26 to May 26. It did not state where those visitors were from.

The two criteria of the recently announced individual licensing scheme for news websites are: that the site posts at least one news article about Singapore a week; and that the site attracts more than 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore per month, over two months.

In its latest posting, TOC said MDA: "MDA's failure to explain how its new policy is to be applied at present suggest that the manner in which it is being introduced is opaque and arbitrary, and does not give Singaporeans confidence in its clear application in the future."

 

[watchman8]

Smart move by TOC.

 

[saratogas]

Smart move by TOC.

TOC know they will be next in line so complain First!

 

[laksaboy]

Some of you twits are very daft and can't read between the lines.

What TOC is doing here, is to force an admission by the authorities that the licensing policy was nothing more than a meticulously crafted ploy to screw over Yahoo SG.

 

[cheekenpie]

Some of you twits are very daft and can't read between the lines.

What TOC is doing here, is to force an admission by the authorities that the licensing policy was nothing more than a meticulously crafted ploy to screw over Yahoo SG.

I have a degree in Between Line Reading.

Dont forgot about the links TOC has with Andrew Loh and Andrew Loh is writer for Yahoo.

Also not silly meh. It will be like a gay man having sex with another man in toilet, then shouting why police never catch me!

 

[watchman8]

I have a degree in Between Line Reading.

Dont forgot about the links TOC has with Andrew Loh and Andrew Loh is writer for Yahoo.

Also not silly meh. It will be like a gay man having sex with another man in toilet, then shouting why police never catch me!

TOC move serve a few purposes. First is to put mda in difficult position to explain distinction made between yahoo and TOC. I'm sure mda will provide a twisted answer that will make mda a laughing stock.

Next is to force mda to explicitly say TOC does not fall within the new ruling, in so doing then mda has to keep to their word in future without being seen as changing the rules too frequently.

 

[ray_of_hope]

TOC is already gazetted as a society. Do they need further regulation? lol

 

[scroobal]

I am sure the Govt did not expect TOC to do this and they are stuck. Clearly there is not rational behind the decision. Kudos to the TOC crew. I want o see a Minister get out of this one.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

I am sure the Govt did not expect TOC to do this and they are stuck. Clearly there is not rational behind the decision. Kudos to the TOC crew. I want o see a Minister get out of this one.

Choo Zheng Xi played this very well. They know Yaacob is not targeting them, so they have nothing to fear or to lose by exposing this discrepancy.

The Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act used to be called the Chee Soon Juan law after he and his sister were arrested at Hong Lim in 2001 after trying to stage a protest-cum-march.

This law will be called the Yahoo Singapore News law.