Tick tock, tick tock
January 13, 2009
The Cambodian Ministry of Information is drafting a law that will extend the libel, defamation and ethics rules currently governing print media to other media platforms, including Internet, national media said on Tuesday.
The law will be used to formalize content management rules so that they can be easily applied by future information ministers, the English-language daily The Phnom Penh Post quoted Information Minister Khieu Kanharith as saying.
“We are drafting the legislation in order to have a proper law to manage radio, television and other platforms,” he said.
How long it takes to draft and approve the law will be directly proportionate to how important the government thinks the law is. For comparison, the monogamy law took one week to draft and pass, the corruption law 15 years and counting. The “Internet” law?
UPDATE: CAPJ objects.
January 14, 2009 at 6:47 am
I hope you are not one of the targets, DAS!
January 14, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I guess there is a reason why so many blogs and posters remain anonymous. They clearly fear backlash from either side. There always hotheads out there.
But I guess they are going after porn-oriented web-content, or at least what they consider porn.