The prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, just announced the banning of 3G cell phones from his country, all because his wife was receiving content that was just a li’l too dirty for his taste:
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Reuters) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has banned 3G mobile phones after a complaint from his wife and her friends about receiving pornography on them.
“I have written to the Minister of Telecommunications to delay the use of certain mobile phones,” Hun Sen told an assembly of Buddhist monks in Phnom Penh on Friday.
“We can wait 10 more years until we have managed to improve morality in society.”
I just find it funny that not only has this guy decided to throw out the baby with the bathwater by ignoring 3G’s positive attributes in favor of focusing the acts of some perverts, but that the former deputy regional commander of a totalitarian regime, responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people, can sit high n’ mighty and talk about “improving morality in society.”
Ah, but then we can’t speak in judgement either… we have Bush.