Yaacob said norms. But what are norms?

The Independent
Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:09:38 +0000
Featured News, community norms, NLB, Yaacob Ibrahim

By Tommy Wong Referring to the recent NLB’s decision to pull three children’s books out of the National Library, Communications and Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim defended NLB’s decision by explaining that it was based on “community norms”. This explanation poses an interesting question:”What are community norms?” According to the Oxford Dictionaries, “norm” is defined as …