New law deals specifically with online falsehoods, ‘preferable’ over amending existing ones: Shanmugam

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Law Minister K Shanmugam says the Broadcasting Act could have been given more powers via subsidiary legislation, but this would leave Government ...

would have, said Law Minister K Shanmugam, but this would mean giving Government broader powers and less judicial oversight.

That the Government already has broad powers was something highlighted by Senior Counsel Siraj Omar andThe alternative would have been to rely on existing laws with “slight tweaks” and add-ons via subsidiary legislation, he said. Meanwhile, the current Class Licensing scheme can also be amended via subsidiary legislation to cover provision of content by individual publishers and clarify that Internet intermediaries like Facebook and Google are also covered, he added.

 

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