Weblog Sin Pies

By Mike Bijon

Cambodian Prime Minister (and former Khmer Rouge soldier) Hun Sen has banned 3G mobile phones from Cambodia for 10 years. The ban comes after his wife and her friends complained to him about receiving pornography on their new 3G phones … and the imminently quotable Prime Minister says, “We can wait 10 more years until we have managed to improve morality in society.”

As prevelant and hard to stop as porn is, it sounds like Hun Sen might need to wake up those old Khmer Rouge enforcement methods to put a halt to the destruction of the upstanding society the Khmer Rouge built by paving farmers’ fields with skulls.

Then again, all of the Prime Ministers’ friends/political rivals probably have stacks of 3G phones on the shelf, even as they trod on the impoverished masses and with the Cambodian economy awfully close to the bottom of the barrel. It’s probably hard to keep them all underfoot without the ability to control who they talk to or control what they read. It would be a real dasappointment if Hun Sen can’t get his “fair” cut of all the “unsanctioned” and “illegal” human trafficking in Cambodia.