Tough laws needed to tackle hate speech as online platforms are not doing enough: Shanmugam

SINGAPORE - The Christchurch terror attacks are a reminder that tough laws are needed to curb the spread of hate speech, which is not being tackled adequately by big online tech companies and platforms, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam on Tuesday .

"I think this will allow us as a society to see where the lines ought to be drawn, and whether they need to be redrawn." "It was full of far-right hate speech, anti-Muslim beliefs and he live-streamed the attack. He aimed for maximum deaths and damage," Mr Shanmugam said. Even as the attacks in Christchurch received worldwide condemnation, the"ugly head of far-right Islamophobia" was seen in the form of anti-Islam comments made by Queensland Senator Fraser Anning soon after the incident, said Mr Shanmugam.

But he said that while Singapore has come a long way in building its racial and religious harmony,"we are not done yet" and it needs to be continuously worked on.

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