back to article Singapore tires of Big Tech's slow and half-hearted help for abused users

Singapore is working on legislation and a dedicated agency that would hold online service providers more accountable for cyber bullying, according to prime minister Lawrence Wong. Speaking at an event on Tuesday, the nation's leader laid out several initiatives to build on the last decade's digital efforts. "All victims of …

  1. Dan 55 Silver badge
    WTF?

    I was thinking "yep, good, yes", until...

    And the nation plans to start its youth early on building AI skills in preparation for the future workforce.

    "Today, our children are born digital natives. But we must still give them more deliberate exposure to AI," asserted Wong.

    A nation of prompt engineers?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Rich tech, poor taxpayers

    Law enforcement is very expensive and paid from our taxes. At the same time some highly profitable tech companies pay little or no taxes, but are not willing to properly process scam reports, which would potentially impact their profitability.

    Their abuse forms are too complicated, requiring a user to guess the nitty-gritty of their internal processes. For example: what is the difference between scam, dangerous content, or restricted product? It should not be up to the user to know how to file an abuse report, but to the media company to filter and dispatch such reports internally.

  3. Tron Silver badge

    The Empire Strikes Back, Part 37.

    The most harmful content - criticism of the government - will be removed immediately, or 10% of profits (if it hasn't all been lifted by the EU's own protection racket) will be appropriated by Singapore to boost public funds.

    Remember folks, there are only ten 10%'s of any GAFA entity's profits to be had each year, so get those laws passed quickly.

    The ones banning zero day hacks and fires will be particularly useful.

    If you want to get ahead of the curve, as GAFA is likely to be fined out of existence in a couple of years, now might be a good time to stock up on '1st' class stamps. At the current rate of inflation, they will increase in value quite a lot by the time e-mail is no longer available, or charged by the message, and most have to go back to using the postal service. Something to spend your bitcoin on before they ban that too.

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