{"id":571,"date":"2006-05-28T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=571"},"modified":"2006-05-28T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T15:49:04","slug":"cambodia-bans-3g-assumes-the-medium-is-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia bans 3G; assumes the medium is the message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime Minister of Cambodia, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hun_Sen\">Hun Sen<\/a>, just announced the banning of 3G cell phones from his country, all because <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/ptech\/05\/26\/cambodia.phones.reut\/index.html\">his wife was receiving content that was just a li&#8217;l too dirty for his taste<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Reuters) &#8212; Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has banned 3G mobile phones after a complaint from his wife and her friends about receiving pornography on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have written to the Minister of Telecommunications to delay the use of certain mobile phones,&#8221; Hun Sen told an assembly of Buddhist monks in Phnom Penh on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can wait 10 more years until we have managed to improve morality in society.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just find it funny that not only has this guy decided to throw out the baby with the bathwater by ignoring 3G&#8217;s positive attributes in favor of focusing the acts of some perverts, but that the former deputy regional commander of a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khmer_Rouge\">totalitarian regime, responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people<\/a>, can sit high n&#8217; mighty and talk about &#8220;improving morality in society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but then we can&#8217;t speak in judgement either&#8230; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/casualties\/\">we have Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;l too dirty for his taste: PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Reuters) &#8212; Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has banned 3G mobile phones after a complaint from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}