Freedom of speech here heavily dependent on who you are and where you voice your anti-government comments, assuming that freedom of speech equals bitching the government and not the right to be racist or denigrate other people's religion.
We all have a good idea of any slip in semantics when opposition politicians talk about PAP leaders in public. Defamation suits are the norm. But where the Internet and laypersons are concerned, looks like most of us have free reign. Could be deadly wrong considering Bob Ho and Zul Shariff's precedence but maybe they were exceptions to the norm of freedom of expression (includes bitching the government, other races, other religion) in the Internet?
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