[governance] No Internet Cafe is allowed to operate within an area closer than 500 meters from any school

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Will they be banning mobile phones, laptops and other possible 'bad
influence' sources in the 500m radius? Or do they specifically mean that
internet cafes are a source of evil?

-C

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:

>  According to *The Cambodia Daily* of Friday, 7 December 2012, the
> Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has recently issued a decree that
> says, among other points:* *
>
> *No Internet Cafe is allowed to operate within an area closer than 500
> meters from any school. *
>
> Given the fact that Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, has many
> schools, it has to be assumed that not many regions remain outside of these
> 500-m-circles around all schools; it also has to be assumed that the
> majority of already existing Internet Cafes, located in areas of social
> activities including schools, will have to close down.
>
> This order is issued to supposedly protect young people from bad
> influences: Violating “traditions”, exposing them to pornography,
> preventing them from playing prohibited games – but none of these issues
> has any clear definition. And there is no clarity about the legal authority
> to interpret and enforce these measures.
>
> The regulation is also to protect users from using drugs, doing money
> laundering, kidnapping, and human trafficking – all these activities are
> anyway illegal – their prohibiting is covered by different laws – why
> include these in the new order on to Internet Cafes?
>
> As for some context: according to a recent survey, there are more than
> 600,000 Facebook users in Cambodia. Many of them do not have computers, but
> access the Internet from Internet Cafes.
>
> =
>
> Of course I know that the Dubai conference is dealing with many important
> issues on a different level. But I find it really surprising that these
> regulations come forward while – I assume – also Cambodian government
> representatives are attending the ITU conference in Dubai.
>
> I wanted to share this information – shocking in its general scope, and at
> the same time extremely vague. I would of course appreciate to receive
> comments, which I then might share locally.
>
> Norbert Klein
> Phnom Penh
> Cambodia
>
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