Lord Playboy v. Cambochica

The general conversation over at Khmer440 is seldom worthy of comment. A year’s worth of intimidation, harassment and death threats against a female blogger, however, goes far beyond the forum’s typical, mind-numbingly dull sex-tourist banter. That cops and lawyers are now getting involved seems more than appropriate.

That the humbly named Khmer440 moderator (who gives a version of events here) has started removing offending content from the Khmer440 web site is likely indicative of the legal situation in which he currently finds himself. But it’s probably too late to start feigning ignorance now.

Nor is his situation likely to get any better. In fact, it could get much, much worse. Along with Cambodia’s tiny expat blogosphere, all the commotion has apparently sparked the interest of local women’s groups, who are finding the overt sexual content of the Khmer440 web site just a wee bit disconcerting, perhaps even criminal.

But credit where credit is due. The whole affair really has demonstrated a fairly superhuman display of daftness on the part of Lord Playboy. By all tellings, the guy tried to pick a fight with a online stranger, and when the stranger dismissed his advances, he worked himself up into such a spittle-flecked rage that he now finds himself in intensive care due to self-inflicted wounds, with no one to blame for his troubles but himself.