By Shawn Lim
The Opinion Collaborative (TOC), former owner of a Singapore socio-political website, The Online Citizen, has returned the SGD $5,000 of advertising revenue it received from UK-based Monsoons Book Club (MBC), after it was ordered to do so by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
This is the first time a registered website in Singapore has been asked to return its advertising revenue.
IMDA, a statutory board under the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI), accused TOC of going against licensing conditions that prevents organisations registered under the Broadcasting (Class Licence) Notification from receiving foreign funds, unless its for ‘bona fide commercial purposes’.
Source: The Drum
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