Cambodia’s Facebook crackdown: Police are monitoring site for ‘enemies’ and ‘rebel movements’

[geovalin]

Mech Dara

 

National Police are monitoring Facebook to repress attempts to create a “rebel movement against the government” through negative posts and are working to better control civil society groups that have “opposition trends” and try to cause instability in society, a semiannual police report issued yesterday says.

 

The 15-page report, launched by National Police Chief Neth Savoeun at police headquarters in Phnom Penh, says authorities have noticed an uptick in the spread of information aimed at unfairly discrediting the government or creating social “chaos”.

 

The report’s dire tone and seeming conflation of civil society and the opposition with “the enemy” is reminiscent of recent, widely criticised rhetoric warning of civil war – and even purges – in the event of an opposition electoral victory, with one observer warning that such stringent monitoring of social media was inherently undemocratic.

 

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[fullcave]

Seems the ruthless dictator is getting paranoid again. 

[siam2007]

17 hours ago, fullcave said:

Seems the ruthless dictator is getting paranoid again. 

 

he learned from a big neighboring country, me thinks