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Internet censorship in Singapore is carried out by the Media Development Authority (MDA). Internet services provided by the three major Internet service providers (ISPs) are subject to regulation by the MDA, which requires blocking of a symbolic number of websites containing "mass impact objectionable" material, including Playboy, YouPorn and Ashley Madison. The Ministry of Education, polytechnics, universities and Institute of Technical Education has its own jurisdiction to block websites displaying pornography, information about drugs and online piracy. The city state reportedly employs deep packet inspection of Internet traffic.〔("Deep packet inspection rears it ugly head" ), Fazal Majid, 4 April 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2015.〕 ==Litigation against bloggers and other content providers== Leading politicians of the ruling People's Action Party and government agencies have been known to use or threaten to use litigation against bloggers and other Internet content providers. The first instance of such activity was against Sintercom in July 2001 when the founder, Dr Tan Chong Kee, was asked to register the website under the nascent Singapore ''Broadcast Authority Act'' (now Media Development Authority). Dr Tan chose to shut down Sintercom due to concerns over the ambiguity of the Act. In April 2005, a blogger, Chen Jiahao, then a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was made to apologise and shut down his blog containing criticisms on government agency A *STAR, after its Chairman Philip Yeo threatened to sue for defamation. In September 2005, three people were arrested and charged under the ''Sedition Act'' for posting racist comments on the Internet.〔(Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2005 ), United States Department of State, retrieved 20 March 2006.〕 The Teachers' Union announced that it was offering legal assistance to teachers who want to take legal action against students who defame them on their blogs, after five students from Saint Andrew's Junior College were suspended for three days for allegedly "flaming" two teachers and a vice-principal on their blogs.〔("Schools act against students for 'flaming' teachers on blogs" ), Sandra Davie and Liaw Wy-Cin, ''The Straits Times'', page 1, 27 September 2005.〕 On 8 October 2012, an assistant director at National Trades Union Congress membership department was fired for racist comments in Facebook.〔(NTUC sacks staff for inappropriate Facebook comments ), channelnewsasia.com, 8 October 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Internet censorship in Singapore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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