Changes coming in this week will see all online traffic pass through a gateway to preserve ‘social order’
A China-style internet gateway scheduled to be imposed inthis week would grant the government far greater powers to conduct mass surveillance, censor and control the country’s internet, rights groups have warned.
Human rights experts and media advocates fear the gateway could be a step towards the kind of censorship enforced through China’s Great Firewall – though some question what technical capacity Cambodia’s systems currently have, and say the process has lacked transparency.Gateway , which the government says will protect national security, help with tax collection and preserve “social order, culture and national tradition”.
Rights experts say the internet is one of the few spaces that still allows for free expression, including criticism of the government of prime minister Hun Sen, who has been in power for more than three decades. Under his rule, the main opposition party has been outlawed,
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