IP: Malaysian State Ponders Curbs on Cyber Cafe Menu

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:18:02 -0400
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> Subject: Malaysian State Ponders Curbs on Cyber Cafe Menu
>
> Thursday June 21 6:23 AM ET
> Malaysian State Ponders Curbs on Cyber Cafe Menu
> By Marty Logan
>
> KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Early nights and non-violent games will be on the 
> menu at Malaysian cyber cafes if a state government passes new rules that 
> would also bar kids in school uniform from the computer dens.
>
> Councilors in west-coast Selangor state vote next week on a long list of 
> regulations that if passed would designate the cafes as entertainment 
> outlets in an attempt to curb video gambling, viewing of pornography and 
> other activities deemed undesirable by the authorities.
>
> Malaysia has spent billions of dollars in the last five years creating its 
> Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), an area stretching from the landmark 
> Petronas Twin Towers in central Kuala Lumpur to the gleaming international 
> airport, an hour's drive away.
>
> Stressing the need for an information technology (IT)- literate society to 
> meet the employment needs of the MSC's multinational firms, leaders put 
> public computers in rural post offices and built cyber-buses that travel 
> to isolated jungle schools.
>
> Cybercafes have sprung up in the smallest towns, but many Malaysians 
> believe freedom of access may give the youth of the future too many of the 
> wrong kind of ideas.
> <snip>
> full article
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010621/wr/tech_malaysia_cybercafes_dc_1.html



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