A look at Singapore's censorship

Peng Hwa Ang and Berlinda Nadarajan (1996). Censorshop Internet: AS. Communications of the ACM. June 1996. 39(6). 72-78

In this article, they are targeting the Singapore government, in this article, the main question they as is: How does one society reconcile its efforts to censor some material with
the desire to benefit from the immense amount information all societies
are able to share with one another?

in this article they state that the Singapore government is well informed that they cannot do much to censor because this can impact the workings of the internet and disturb the faith of users. Even keeping these in mind, the Singapore government will not give up without a fight.

They mention that the main objective to censorship is to control access and only allowing certain materials to get past users. (such as pornographic material and "misinformation" that could create a political debate)

The inter ministry committee on electronic information services were create to study technical and legal issues to review regulations of new media such as the internet.

They had showed an example of how the Singapore government had made use of the Internet (through a web page: http://www.sg/ This was designed so that youth can explain and defend the party's view and create rationale for certain policies.

The ministry of information and the arts was planning to issue official responses on the Internet, just as it gives formal replies in the press. However, such responses will be selective, that is, only when the issue is significant and relevant to the ministry. (in which information is being censored)

This Singapore case study shows that just like China, they want to control information and at the same time reap the benefits of the information age.