Remind you of any other countries you know?
While the ISA has not been invoked in recent years against political opponents of the government
That's interesting.
Two companies, Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) and MediaCorp, own all general circulation newspapers
So two companies own the print media for a market of 5 million. In the US, it's more like four for 300 million people.
Government-linked companies and organizations operated all domestic broadcast television channels and almost all radio stations.
So, basically just like the UK.
Banned publications consisted primarily of sexually oriented materials but also included some religious and political publications.
Kind of the way Germany bans racialist publications or Scientologist publications?
On April 3, MICA prohibited the use of podcasts and videocasts as campaign tools during the election period.
Campaign laws limiting free speech? Good thing we don't have those, right Senator McCain?
Most associations, societies, clubs, religious groups, and other organizations with more than 10 members are required to register with the government under the Societies Act. [...] The government has absolute discretion in applying criteria to register or dissolve societies.
A law that is never enforced.
While the government did not outlaw the profession or propagation of the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses and does not arrest members merely for being believers, the result of deregistration was to make meetings of Jehovah’s Witnesses illegal.
And yet the JWs exist and meet and grow in number in Singapore.
While no one can conscionably agree with this policy, this is a typical story for the JWs and is a repeat of their experiences in WWII and Korea in the United States. Singapore has required military service (like the US' peacetime draft in the 1950s), and JWs refuse - of course - to either do military service or alternative service in lieu of combat service.
So, basically, Singapore is guilty of all the things that the US government is currently guilty of - or of things that the US government was guilty of before the 1960s.
So two companies own the print media for a market of 5 million. In the US, it's more like four for 300 million people.
What a dishonest omission. For shame. Since you're willing to lie by omission to defend Singapore, I'm done here.