Is this too much?

Captain Steve Rogers · Sun May 24, 2015 1:57 pm

Has Cambodia reached it's boiling with freedom of expression? recently the PhnomPenhPost published an article stating that a Government spokesman has urged the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Telecommunications to punish people who insult or defame government officials. What do you guys think will happen?

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weeke ... ne-insults

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Sun May 24, 2015 2:00 pm

While there is plenty the government could be criticized for, the online comments that defame them are for the most part ignorance and stupidity, so they shouldn't get too bothered about them.

Captain Steve Rogers · Sun May 24, 2015 3:00 pm

John Bingham wrote:While there is plenty the government could be criticized for, the online comments that defame them are for the most part ignorance and stupidity, so they shouldn't get too bothered about them.

Some people express themselves in good light why not right? regardless of what is said the internet has always been a mean of expression.

TheGrinchSR · Post by **TheGrinchSR** » Sun May 24, 2015 3:04 pm

I think that with no legal guarantees of freedom of speech... and a weak legal system... you get persecution. I also think that the best way to avoid persecution is simply not to do things like malign individual governmental officials and go for the government as a whole instead.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Sun May 24, 2015 3:37 pm

Captain Steve Rogers wrote:
John Bingham wrote:While there is plenty the government could be criticized for, the online comments that defame them are for the most part ignorance and stupidity, so they shouldn't get too bothered about them.

Some people express themselves in good light why not right? regardless of what is said the internet has always been a mean of expression.

Maybe you should check out the comments they are talking about?

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Sun May 24, 2015 3:50 pm

John Bingham wrote:While there is plenty the government could be criticized for, the online comments that defame them are for the most part ignorance and stupidity, so they shouldn't get too bothered about them.

Defamation is always ignorance and stupidity.

It's when the truth is labelled defamation that the BS starts, and in Cambodia only money decides which is which.

Only a cretin would be happy with that.

BOFH · Post by **BOFH** » Sun May 24, 2015 8:02 pm

How are they going to deanonymize all the critics from Long Beach?

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Sun May 24, 2015 8:20 pm

vladimir wrote: Defamation is always ignorance and stupidity.

It's when the truth is labelled defamation that the BS starts, and in Cambodia only money decides which is which.

Only a cretin would be happy with that.

Agreed, but it seems that the comments that are bothering them are the old Pol Potist "Khmer Body - Youn Head" ones.

How are they going to deanonymize all the critics from Long Beach?

They can't, but what's the point anyway? Those critics are about as dumb, ignorant and uneducated as they come. Unfortunately there are people (foreign and local) here who are just as dumb and swallow that nonsense. Like I was trying to say, there's no point in trying to silence them, it won't work. Engaging them in debate won't either, as anyone who has ever read the comments on KI media will know. It's just a clusterfuck of retarded-ness.

Samouth · Post by **Samouth** » Sun May 24, 2015 8:52 pm

At least, i can talk about political freely here. i rarely talk about political on facebook.

Sailorman · Post by **Sailorman** » Mon May 25, 2015 8:52 am

"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King."
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
1466-1536

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