Forum192 :: Cambodia Suspends Text-Messaging

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:32 pm

Cambodia's government has asked cellphone companies to suspend text-messaging for the weekend, until after local elections close Sunday night. Election law there prohibits campaigning on election day or the day before, so this was done to ensure that.

For a lot of Cambodians text-messages are a preferred way of communicating, since it's cheap. Users were given a few hours' notice that service would be suspended, by text-message.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6513027.stm

I think this is kind of ridiculous.

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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:06 pm

I think you are right.

The article said the election commission claimed it was free of any party? A: So what, they're still taking away most people's cheaper form of communication and it's still a form of censorshipish B: Sure they're free of any party. Rolling Eyes

Ironic they were notified by a text-message though...

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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:19 am

This is insane. I've never seen the point in laws like that anyway, you can't stop people from talking about it, it's all over the news, but now they ban text-messages? Since the government has a significant amount of control over the news outlets there though it's not unexpected. Honestly I don't see how they think this would really affect anything, other than making people dislike the election commission.

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