By Alice Kok
FutureGov.net
The Ministry of Information is currently drafting a law that will extend current print media rules to other media platform, including the internet.
“This law will be used to formalise content management rules so that they can be easily applied by future information ministers,” says Khieu Kanharith Information Minister. “We are drafting the legislation in order to have a proper law to manage radio, television and other platforms,” he said.
The minister says the recent explosion of media outlets has made the law necessary.
The number of internet users in Cambodia has increased from 6000 in 2000 to more than 70,000 regular Internet users today. The country also has 9 aerial television channels, 60 cable channels and dozens of print media.
The Ministry of Information said that the major intent of this law is to control the publishing of audio-visual data, of games, and of entertainment programmes and advertisements through the Internet, to ensure moral respect. Electronic news portals will not be affected.
After completion, the draft law will be sent to the Council of Ministers for approval.
“This law will be used to formalise content management rules so that they can be easily applied by future information ministers,” says Khieu Kanharith Information Minister. “We are drafting the legislation in order to have a proper law to manage radio, television and other platforms,” he said.
The minister says the recent explosion of media outlets has made the law necessary.
The number of internet users in Cambodia has increased from 6000 in 2000 to more than 70,000 regular Internet users today. The country also has 9 aerial television channels, 60 cable channels and dozens of print media.
The Ministry of Information said that the major intent of this law is to control the publishing of audio-visual data, of games, and of entertainment programmes and advertisements through the Internet, to ensure moral respect. Electronic news portals will not be affected.
After completion, the draft law will be sent to the Council of Ministers for approval.
26 comments:
Real shit is gonna happen. Poor Cambodians who are currently living in well without outside views are even diving deeper with this restricted rule. Ahhhhhh really pity
It's disturbing to hear Khieu Kannharith drafting the legislation to control media-press.
What happens to the 1993 Constitution,the supreme law of the land,citizen rights clause?
Cambodia can thrive to its full potential if only and only the government starts to behave like an individual not a pack of wolves to infringe the check and balance mechanism via press.
Internet helped Obama to overcome the impossibility to win grass root campaign and election.
Hun Sen and his neighbors: Yuon,Siam beware the power of keyboard in lieu of pen or Stinger.
AH Playboy " Eat Mother & EAT Daughter" at Kien Svay is going to regulate the Internet?.
They should also draft laws to lock up govt official who doesn't serve and protect the people, and those who let in illegal youns.
Thank God for protecting Khmer from Ah Pleu-oversea's propaganda.
Cambodia is heading toward commie now.
Since the idea and freedom of express going to hurt CPP, now they came up with law to regulate the expressions.
Democracy in Cambodia is heading down hill. I can hardly Cambodia moves forward with democracy. Every time it is going backward.
Khmer Serey!
cpp seems to ugly get backward and close on its own after short period of progress in term of freedom and rights to access to information and acknowledgement. Does the cpp want to get back to their old khmer rouge method of polpot?
Remark, cpp regulated laws of internet sound like those of the yuons kantop laws regarding accession to worldwide information. does it means cpp draw by its own or just got order from theirs yuon masters to do?
Pouk ah khmer kraharm os nis, cant get head out of its yuon culture of killing; repression
6:39pm
you are a funny guy. you belong in the circus with animals.
6:39 is ah tat somang. its sister tat marina was fuking by by yuon dog but it get mad with people in overseas who help its sister from die
these yuon animals (khmer rouge) are same from other to other. they lost all reason to be human but simple yuon animals
I think KI-Media will be shut down when this law is passed. Some high ranking official came to warn this site about its libelous and defamatory contents, but the KI-Media team and Lao Mong Hay refused to comply.
Frankly, I will be sad to see this site go. I think this site exposes the idiocy of Western propaganda better than any government attempt to silence opposition voices. It's too bad they do not understand that.
- Khmer Patriot, Ph.D.
I can't wait til that day!
I will be mentally broken heart, if CPP will be eventually shut down KI-Media. Therefore, not only any opportunity which I can learn to learn and write a few simple English sentences, but we Khmer will be ultimately lost the freedom of speech!
Khmer Patriot Ph.D is not Khmer you all know that.
He is a pro commie!
He is here to just pretend that he is Khmer. He is YOUN pretend to be Khmer.
Please take away that word Khmer Patriot out of your signature.
We don't want a wastrel like you in our Khmer society.
Khmer Serey!
No one wanted to see Cambodia going through suffering once again.
However,current government of Cambodia is not impermanent.People moved and changed,leadership also changed when time comes.
Hun Sen and elements are inspiring chaos and hatred culture.
Ah Khmer Serey/9:01 PM -
Ber anh min main Khmer, het mdech anh jess jay m'dai ah eng, ah joi m'rai!
- Khmer Patriot, Ph.D.
Hey dude Khmer Patriot, Ph.D
It doen't seem that you are fitting in the position of Ph.D.
You foul languages doens't fit in that.
You are a low-life uneducated fool.
You style of talking is those one that live near the trash dumping place at Stoeung Meanchey.
You are very barbaric!
I can judge you with you language that you are the left over of germs or bacteria from the Khmer Rough era.
When you talked like that, nobody proud of you. You damn animal!!
It is time to be modern a bit man.
Khmer PP,
Living in the Prey Sor jail with out wall again????????
Why a lot of saved our lives by our own with out depend on the idiot ,stupid ,lowlifes,selfishness,dictator and communist government. To all homey please stand up for your right or you will get kill free like live under khmer rouge and hun sen government.
My beloved Khmer PP!
Do you confidently believe that Samdech Hun SenVarman with many PhDs literally know how to read, speak, and write the simple English sentences?
Remember, it is in the dark that evil triumphs ! the khmer rouge and Vietcong want to keep khmer people in dark, klao, klean, klach to better kill and control them. It is the certain sign practiced by murderers and dictators.
Ignorant can handle intelligence and wisdom as the murderers cant handle truth. The only solutions for these criminals is to control things around is to close themselves and those around them in their dark world, using repression, threat and killing as solutions against those who oppose to them and to endure their reign of terrors
Will the site still be up and running but blocked for viewers inside Cambodia from being seen or will it be physically shutdown after the law passed?
Why can’t this puppet gov’t look at the US? The US gov’t doesn’t care about criticism and allow people to express whatever they want to say about their gov’t. If the puppet regime is doing no wrong, why do they so afraid and shameful for being condemn?
A real democracy is just a pure gold, never afraid of fire.
Good News for Cambodia. I am glad KI media will ceased to exist.
This is truly the work of a communist regime. An all-out attempt to filtered the voice and concerns from outside influence which impact their daily running of government corruptions. This served as a filtrations and a deterent to cut off intelligence from outside source. Because of Khmer-Oversea....through KI Media, the eye's and ear's of it's people; the Cambodian government feel that it is necessary to cut off outside source in order to better controlled of it's people. They'd have heard enough of Freedom of Expression's and can no longer tolerate the
criticism of their behavior.
This is their defense to lock us out from our own home.
We will continued to bring heat and exposed their human rights violation to the rest of the world. We will not stop!
Stop bullshitting, Ah potatoes digger (6:01). If the US allowed criticism, then how come so many TV announcers lost their job.
10:01 don't get criticism mixed up with racism.
I suggest you take the time to seek out facts before intruding on someone else comment.
Here you go, see for yourself, 10:53.
"CNN's Jordan Resigns Over Iraq Remarks"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17462-2005Feb11.html
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