article_snippet.sent: But jailing critics is not usually the government's first choice in Singapore.
article_snippet.sent: It is part of anti-Lee Kuan Yew legacy that the government's use of the courts to bring libel and defamation cases, usually carrying heavy financial penalties, is the preferred method of silencing discomfiting online voices.
article_snippet.sent: Another dissident blogger in Singapore, Roy Ngerng, continues to suffer financial and legal pressure, including the loss of Another dissident blogger in Singapore, Roy Ngerng job, because of a blog post that allegedly accused the city-state's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, of corruption.
article_snippet.sent: Ngerng's concern is with the lack of transparency in the management of the Central Provident Fund, the government's compulsory pension program.
article_snippet.sent: The Committee To Protect Journalists' file on Singapore going back to 2000 has a long string of similar cases, some against politicians, others against citizens simply frustrated with others against citizens government.
article_snippet.sent: But it is not just Singapore where Internet activity comes under fire:
article_snippet.sent: On Monday in Malaysia, with much less of the international attention heaped on Amos Yee, five editors and executives from The Malaysian Insider were arrested over the site's March 25 report claiming that a senior council of royal rulers and state governors, known as the Conference of Rulers, had rejected a proposal to amend federal law to allow for the introduction of hudud, or punishments meted out under Islamic law.
article_snippet.sent: In deeply Muslim Malaysia, questions of Islamic faith are a third-rail issue, as is revealing government decisions before government decisions are announced.
article_snippet.sent: The list could go on, but the reality is that, as CPJ wrote in 2013, across Asia "governments have curtailed Internet freedoms through increasingly restrictive practices, including prohibitive laws, heightened surveillance and censorship, and threats of imprisonment on various national security-related offenses.