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Singapore Sets a New Free Speech Trap

Draconian legislation aimed at “foreign interference”

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John Berthelsen
Oct 02, 2021
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On September 25, five reporters with the Singapore Straits Times, a newspaper that does little that the Singapore government doesn’t want done, published a massive five-part package of stories raising the specter of foreign interference in the island republic’s politics and society.

Unfortunately, its sleuthing out of foreign influence in the press was l…

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