A group that advises Singapore officials on Internet issues is recommending
that the government stop censoring political content and instead focus on
pornography and violence, Bloomberg
Online reports. It's not clear if the recommendation means that sites
offering dissident content will actually become available in the
authoritarian East Asian country, however, since other censors already
block such information.
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