Complete and utter lies. Singapore long has had abuse of libel laws to stiffle criticism. Stow the anti-colonial "homegrown dictatorship is better" whataboutism

Complete and utter lies. Singapore long has had abuse of libel laws to stiffle criticism. Stow the anti-colonial "homegrown dictatorship is better" whataboutism about how it is so unfair that they can't get away uncriticized for repression. Civil unknowing defamation is a thing in Singapore law. In contrast US and others exclude good faith and lack any criminal defamation in the first place. Even if doing away with them is radical they are sharply limited to prevent abuse. Public figure abuse? They are covered less such that actual malice AND harm must be proven. Calling them the same is disingenuous.