After read the E-commerce web site at http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Legal with the title “New rules for cyber cafes soon”, I’m here to give some comment about the government that try to set out some rules to those cyber cafes in Malaysia.
The first guideline is cyber cafes have to close by midnight daily. After review to the cyber cafes in my area which in Bandar Sg Long. I don’t think that is effective because they operate 24 hour per day without close.
Most of the cyber cafes they also using tinted glass in their premises and unable to see through from the outside. And most of them are operate at ground floor. For children age under 12 years old. Most of them are not accompany by parents or guardian. And of course there are on children who are under 12 years old is still visit after 10pm.
For prohibited from providing gaming activities, gambling, pornography, music and publications with negative element, there is getter lesser and lesser now a day because there is strict control by government. There are no cigarettes and alcohol being sold in cyber cafes. And there are no book logs to record the entry and departure time of the patrons.
According to the Housing and Local Government Deputy Minister that are aim to prevent the Internet and cyber cafes from turning into the possible source of social ills, I think there are less effective maybe due to not strictly enough to prevent it. For example, one of the cyber cafes in my area that they still operates after midnight. Although they close the main entrance, still running their business by enter to the cyber cafes by back door.
I think that there is harder to survive for the cyber cafes business due to a lot of rules to follow. And in my area, there are one cyber cafes is bankrupt and others they are trying to contract their cafes.
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