Friday, February 25, 2011

Watchdog decries website blockage

Sieng Sithy: TEAM CENSORSHIP
Friday, 25 February 2011
James O'Toole
The Phnom Penh Post

AN international press freedom group has registered concern over the government’s apparent attempts to block opposition blog KI-Media and other anti-government websites.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the United States-based Committee to Protect Journalists said the move was part of a worrying trend of online censorship in the Kingdom.

“We are troubled by reports that Cambodia is increasingly curbing online freedom,” Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s Senior Southeast Asia Representative, said in the statement.

“We urge Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to immediately reverse course. The Internet is one of the few spaces left for free expression in Cambodia and that is how it should remain.”


Earlier this month, users of local Internet Service Providers including WiCam, Ezecom and Metfone reported that they were unable to access Ki-Media. WiCam users briefly received a message stating that the site had been “blocked as ordered by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cambodia”.

MPTC officials initially denied ordering that KI-Media be blocked, though in an email to local ISPs that was leaked earlier this month, Sieng Sithy, deputy director of the Directorate of Telecommunications Policy Regulation at the MPTC, chided several firms that had yet to block KI-Media and other opposition sites and urged them to do so.

KI-Media made the news in December when Seng Kunnaka, a security guard employed by the United Nations World Food Programme, received a six-month jail term for incitement just days after he was arrested for printing out an article from the website and sharing it with co-workers.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

a href="http://traitorofyuonhunzen.blogspot.com/">You should help khmer ,don't make yourself fall in heven ,and should think ,nowaday the all society must be have freedom in spech what are they want becuase in blablization everything full with compitition for better life ,idea must be growth up all time ,all this i think you are only dog of ayuong can't accept true problem what they are have beed done and you should think who are you ? /a>

Anonymous said...

He is the maddog of IT in this globe? know someone his website?

Anonymous said...

Ha sithy the vietname don't like your skin at all ...they really need to chang dark skin from cambodia so you look at Jail all dark skin like you and white skinn all at the university now they just use you for a while so watch out don't take my word ok take brother YOUN THEY NEVER LOVE YOUR KIN AND MY SKIN AT ALL

Anonymous said...

I will give vietname a listen next wait and see and ar-hun sen is on the way to clean them believe or not just wait a bit if he still suck with youn

Anonymous said...

We are so pluralism and some of us have lost controls and disciplines. Maybe we have to be strict in some ways to protect our nation.

On this internet, we did not know, who is Cambodian (Khmer), because everybody and of course our enemy of life are able to attack the Cambodian authorities.

Only we Khmer knew so well, but not others about the history of Khmer Surin and Khmer Krom. We also don't want that our next generations will lost their identity as Khmer and not able to be call as children of Angkor.

Anonymous said...

shit and crap. someone kill this ugly guys....bastard..

Anonymous said...

I don't belive you following by stupid gov-HUN XEN.
(FUCKIGN YOUR MOM SENG SITHY)

Anonymous said...

Shame on this Seing Shitty that he is practicing unethical on freedom of expression, and on the other hand he is showing the smiling face and wearing the Nike trademark T-shirt with Team Canada written on it. Go to hell you CPP sleaze gangster and take off your shirt. We are doing thing like you have done in your Banana Kingdom over there in Canada.

Anonymous said...

This guy is only interested in money and position, his obligation for socity = 0, he has access to website news atound the world but he is still blind what the world is up.

It-expert

Anonymous said...

*His look like the small Dog,No way to go in one unfair regime [Hen sen regime].if Mr sam rainsy not go to France his will be do the same him.
KHMER DAI

Anonymous said...

look doesn't count in cambodia, you know! it's what inside and the will of the people that counts, ok! if he is a dog, he is a pitbull or a rodwiler, so watch out boy! don't trigger the animal instinct out of him! or you'll be sorry! bye bye!

Anonymous said...

Dear Ki,
If you know anyone working for Hun Sen to suppress freedom of speeches and suppress for a real democracy, refer their names to all foreign embassies. I know now all foreign governments have alerted their embassy not to give these people visa of any kind to enter into their countries. THese people included temple'boys association, police and military under hun Sen direct order.

Anonymous said...

*This is a communist and dictator system. Cambodia not belong to you,your father,your Mom...nor Hun sen....too.
*if no Khmer People go back to visit motherland and NO PARIS AGREEMENTS,,,May bee your guys don't know about Dollars until now.No lexus,no land cruiser,no modern house etc....!!!!
-About 99% of CPP are rich,because they SOLD LAND,SOLD FOREST,SOLD EVERYTHING.
AH KHMEARN KAI KHMASS

Anonymous said...

Those Yourn dogs are scared the shit out of them after they saw what has happened in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. That's why they have to shut off KI in Cambodia.

There is report that about 3-400 people with knives, machets gathered around Kampoung Thom province and three other trying to protect their farm land. Only there were 10-20,3000 more and take out the governor of Kpg. Thom

Anonymous said...

*BANGKAK,PHNOM PENH PEOPLE WILL BURNS THEMSELVES...HUN SEN GOVT WILL OPEN BIG EYES SOON.
*KHMER POOR PEOPLE ALL 5 PROVINCES A ROUND KAMPONG THOM ZONE NO MORE COWARDS DISEASES WITH ENCOURAGES FEELING WILL DESTROYE ALL YOUNS PLANS IN FOREST AREAS...EVERYTHING ARE COME TRUE FOR YOUR KHMER LAND.....IF YOU ARE NOT YOU WILL HUNGER AND DIE for NOTHING.
AH CHORL MASHIT CPP

Anonymous said...

he's not that evil, can't you tell by his beautiful smile! stop whining already, ok!

Anonymous said...

hey, they say speak softly but carry a big stick! how else are you supposed to discipline unruly people? better idea or silent and hold your peace!

Anonymous said...

Sieng Sithy,how many
body guards do you have?
You'll be died young
You are Hun Sen
MAD DOG.
YES,you can block websites,but you can't block Khmer
people hearts or minds.They have many
ways to communicate
with one another.
The world spins around,not the same.
Today you have a big
smile,but tomorrow
you'll be sad or dead.
Khmer people will kill you first before someone else.
May you go to hell
soon.















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Anonymous said...

*The unprofessional skill like SO KHUN just using him like DOG.His no way to go.if no Green light from SO KHUN,his can not do it.The Bad guy is SO KHUN [ MAD DOG BOXING GUY].
BAD DOG SO KHUN

Anonymous said...

Let's auction off his head!

20 bucks to start...

Anonymous said...

Ah HUN SEN, Ah LOB LUN
8888I curse you die like a dog8888
I am khmer, I don't like you lead my country...

CHAN REACHEA
Pailen, Battambang

Anonymous said...

អាឆ្កែហ៊ុនសែន និងអាឆ្កែកញ្ជះយួន
"Sieng Sithy"

កុំខំព្រុសពេក! ប្រយ័ត្នអាយួនយកទៅការីខ្ទិះដូងសណ្ដែកដីក្លែម
ស្រាទៅអាថ្លើម..!

Anonymous said...

អស់លោកប្រាកដជាយ៉ាប់ម៉ែន!

លោកតាពី (លីតាពោក) ហ្រ្វុមឡងប៊ីជ
P. from Long Beach

Anonymous said...

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