Dear Lok Bong Mohavichetrakar, Your toons speak for Khmer people. Thank you. Thavary
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM, sacravatoons <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Thank you for your compliments. > The Government Nom Benh cannot bare the reality of the strongly SUN. > And also thanks to IT people who've been created the IT TUNNEL --------> > Hits the Target of the Evilly Regime of Nom Benh in a few minutes. > > Cheers, > Bun H. > > > Dear All, > > Pls. find below a very interesting remark about Sacrava website. Again, Lok > Sacrava, thank you for a job well done: it looks like the pencil wins over > the gun after all. > > Best regards, > > MP > --------- > > January 15, 2009 > Internet exempt from libel law: > govt<http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2009/01/internet-exempt-from-libel-law-govt.html> > > Thursday, 15 January 2009 > Written by Brendan Brady and Sam Rith > The Phnom Penh Post > > Information Ministry denies legislation extending libel to audovisual media > will limit internet > > The Ministry of Information has denied that new libel legislation it is > drafting for audiovisual media will bear on the internet, despite previous > claims by its minister, Khieu Kanharith, that the recent explosion of > websites was an impetus for the measure. > > In a statement released Tuesday, the ministry said the law would target > "audiovisual content in radio, television and print only", adding that > public criticism of it levelled by local journalists earlier in the day was > "absolutely untruthful". > > But Sam Rithy Doung Hak, a monitor for the Cambodian Association for the > Protection of Journalists, the group that condemned the proposed legislation > as unwarranted censorship, said the ministry was simply "backtracking ... > probably because of pressure from international groups based here". > > Despite the ministry's claims, he said popular websites and cartoons > critical of the government would be susceptible to censorship if the law > were introduced. He singled out the online materials of news aggregator > Khmer Intelligence and Australian-based Khmer cartoonist Sacrava as > potential targets. > > Khieu Kanharith was not available for comment Wednesday. > > Don't regulate criticism > > Local leaders of Cambodia's online community remain deeply cynical of any > government efforts to regulate media content given its shaky track record. > Cambodia is currently ranked 128th - or "partially free" - on the US-based > Freedom House organisation's 2008 press freedom list > > Keo Kounila, a local blogger and journalist, said vibrant opposition voices > were essential to the fabric of a democracy, and saw the proposed bill as > counterproductive to growth of the country's nascent political environment. > > "The government should try to understand criticism [directed at it], not > regulate it. This is similar to what China is trying to do," she said, > referring to the vigorous online censorship conducted by the communist > state. > > Norbert Klein, a Phnom Penh-based German who is credited with having > introduced, internet to Cambodia in 1994, called the proposed legislation > "very problematic". > > "If there is legislation, it should be technically enforceable and legal. > Neither is the case." > The demands of the law were unrealistic and unprecedented, he added. > > "When the law says every ISP will need a license from the Information > Ministry and Communication Ministry, no other country in the world has > that," said Klein, who is also a policy adviser for ICANN, an international > non-profit group that deliberates on a wide range of internet protocol > issues. He said media censorship was susceptible to "escalation" in times of > political turmoil and questioned the government's ability to regulate > content using standards accepted by the population. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
