It is important to build a national consensus over the need for a rational regulation that would not affect free speech but helps protect the privacy and dignity of the individuals, writes Ram Madhav.
"You will leave the relevance of the questions to me", home minister of Singapore K Shanmugam curtly told Facebook officials when they objected to his questions in an official inquiry commission. "You do not want to be regulated. (But) We look at your conduct all over the world. We are looking at our national security," Shanmugam told the officials to their face, and refused to engage further by saying, "Can we move on? I don't need an answer from you". What followed were stringent laws regulating social media in the case of fake news and other libelous posts.
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