On 7th September, NTU released guidelines on internet postings that are political and religious in nature.
In an email to the whole university, the Student Affairs Office said:
Communication being a mere click away these days, we believe it would be helpful to remind ourselves from time to time to exercise our freedom of expression responsibly and within the ambit of the law. For this purpose, we forward the attached document for your attention.
The guidelines attached in the email are as follows:
The email has since caught the mainstream media’s attention.
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The university sent the email five days after the Temasek Review published a story on an academic blacklist that surfaced on the blog, Liberating Truth.
It is not known if the email and the blacklist incident are related. However, the closeness in timing between the two has led many students to speculate that NTU has sent the circular in reaction to the academic blacklist.
NTU has not confirmed the speculations. In a report by the Straits Times, Associate Professor Lok Tat Seng, dean of students at NTU said that the guidelines were released as part of a regular annual excerise.
He also added that “guidelines apply more to faculty members”.
Read an analysis by Terence Lee regarding the guidelines
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