Asian bloggers discuss Internet freedom at Cambodia conference
Bloggers from across Asia came together in the Cambodian city of Siem Reap this weekend to discuss blogging, technology and Internet freedom at 2012’s Blogfest Asia festival, a gathering of over 160 opinionated and distinctly geeky participants. Tops on the agenda? Internet freedom. … The Cambodian contingent expressed their concern to the crowd over a looming cyber law, which would for the first time enforce restrictions on the Southeast Asian nation’s relatively laissez-faire network. Bloggers and Internet advocates thus far haven’t been allowed to view a draft of the new legislation, supposedly meant to counter terrorism—and that’s making many uneasy, said Cambodian Center for Human Rights program director and blogger Chak Sopheap …
