Govt to discuss age-appropriate content with platforms; social media cannot be a ‘free-for-all’: Josephine Teo
App stores will also roll out age verification measures, using means such as credit cards or SingPass, by Mar 31 next year.
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"If you want to have good behaviour be the norm, then anti-social behaviour, bad behaviour, has to come with a consequence. And the consequence sometimes is just that this content should be made to disappear" Holy shit. Isn't this insanely vague and open to abuse? What is stopping them classifying anything they do not like or that does not conform to their personal dogmas as "anti-social" or "bad" behaviour and ban all content related to those. Sorry for the incoming rant. Don't read further if you feel you might get offended. For example, they'll ban discussions and topics (and access to) about: - Introverts, Social Anxiety, Mental Health Disorders. Because people should just "get over it" and mask up in society to an unhealthy degree. - Atheism and skepticism. Because sheer existence of them might cause people to doubt their religion and other supernatural beliefs. And the typical "where do you get your morals from" spiel. - LGBT and not conforming to gender norms. Because they are "not natural", and that "traditional family values" are important to uphold ugh. - Novels, movies and video games involving magic, as well as rock and heavy metal. Because that's witchcraft and it is "anti- <insert any religion here>" and "demonic". - Novels, movies and video games involving any violence. Because "oh no the kids will grow up desensitivised to violence and become violent!", completely ignoring the fact that these recreational media are entirely FICTIONAL and it should be the parents responsibility to decide what is acceptable or not. And these are just a few things they might target. I hate this global shift towards increasingly tighter censorship, authoritarian state control and monitoring.
Yep this is legit how authoritarian states limit free speech. Literally why the US is such a dumpster fire right now
All these internet restrictions in the name of child safety in Aus, US, EU, UK... now SG. Sus af.
Man this is gonna be terrible for everyone.
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