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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Police refute allegations of racial bias in Bishan MRT station incident

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A good example on whether free speech should be allowed here if people are given the freedom to post this kind of message....
Assuming the person posted this out of innocent curiosity(misinformation)  and not a prank/mischief (i.e. not fake news) or disinformation, the effect would still be the same of stoking racial tensions, and perhaps reinforcing existing prejudice in the minds of people?
But say the police were really guilty of racial profiling in the conduct of their duty, then this kind of free speech would have been crucial in creating awareness and applying pressure on the police to toe the line with regard to their behaviour....

For qns on free speech...