Actually, PAP does think that anonymous bloggers are credible.

There had been countless attempts in recent years by the Main-Stream Medias (MSM) and several public figures of Singapore's ruling cabal attempting to cast anonymous views on the Internet as "not credible". I am sure we had all seen the endless responses and arguments to counter such unproductive viewpoint.

But hey, why even sweat it? The truth is in fact, PAP does think that anonymous bloggers are actually very credible. Let me explain.

Recently, there was this speech by the Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, and he said that "Anonymity in cyberspace is an illusion. You will remember in 2007, we prosecuted three persons under the Sedition Act because of the blogs they put up which denigrated the religion of one of our communities in Singapore." and also "The reason we did that was to send the message that your words have an impact; if need be, we can identify you, and if we have to, we will be prepared to prosecute you."

By making such statements, dear Vivian is actually telling us a few things:

1) You cannot be anonymous because we know who you are even if you don't put down your name.

2) Since you are not anonymous for we know who you are, then you must be credible.

3) If you are not being credible, we can and will identify you, and prosecute you since we know who you are.

4) So if we do not identify you or prosecute you, and since you are not anonymous because we know who you are, then you must be credible.

There we go, in not so many words from a PAP minister helping us debunk the myth of the MSM, anonymous bloggers had became credible.