A review on 'Legal' from My E-Commerce blog - "New rules for cyber cafe soon"

Malaysian government announced that there will be some new guidelines to be enforced soon on Internet and cyber cafes.


From my point of view, this is good to have guidelines to control the cyber cafe. As we know, the cyber cafe in the market nowadays normally attracts kids and children to play games. This is not a good sign as social ills will be caused. Initially cyber cafe should be the place for the public to obtain Internet access services but not the place for the children to play games. Therefore, I strongly agree that enforcement of new guidelines onto the cyber cafes is a starting point to reduce the social ills.

One of the guidelines to be enforced is those under 12 years old must be accompanied by parents and only allowed to stay up to 10pm. This would be a good way to restrict the children from being addicted to the Internet games. Parents are playing an important role to control their children in this case. They should always educate their children and guide them while using the Internet.



Besides, the cyber cafe is prohibited from providing gaming activities, gambling, pornography, music and publications with negative elements. Moreover, cigarettes and alcohol are also to be prohibited from being sold. This is good way to prevent the cyber cafe from turning into the possible source of social ills.



Illegal cyber cafe should be punished. For example, those who fail to meet the important guidelines will have their licenses revoked. This would be a good way to reduce the social ills that are happened seriously in our country recently. However, commitment from each party is important in order to deal with this cyber cafe problem.




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