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Cambodia charges foreigners with making pornographic images
Prosecutors in Cambodia have charged 10 foreigners, including five Britons, with producing pornographic images after raiding a villa in Siem Reap. They were arrested on Thursday after images emerged of people apparently imitating sexual positions at a party in the north-western town. If convicted, they face up to a year in prison.
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A police release included photos of multiple clothed men and women straddling one another on the floor, some in sexually suggestive positions. Those photos are said to have been shared on social media prior to the arrests.
[...] [Joshua Kurlantzick, a senior fellow with the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank,] said the Cambodian government is grappling with pressure to enforce more conservative values, an agenda that is at odds with the country's party-oriented reputation among young western travellers. Foreigners dressed in skimpy clothing while visiting religious and historical monuments have been one source of tension. "Cambodian officials have been a little frustrated," Kurlantzick said. "Partly through their own fault, they allowed a certain very seedy sex tourism culture to take place in (the capital) Phnom Penh."
He said that while the arrests are "pretty unusual," travellers should be aware that the Cambodian government is increasingly lashing out against all types of foreign influence, including boisterous tourists. "The overall environment in Cambodia has just become much more repressed over the last year," Kurlantzick said. "The country is potentially something of a tinder box because of that."
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @12:41AM
Yeah, who needs advanced tech, who cares about curing diseases and creating bionic replacements? Who needs the internet, obviously it is only good for spreading this western degeneracy?? Who cares about all the westerners actually trying to help the rest of the world, let us focus instead on the negatives.
God how I wish I could live in Turdburkistan and oppress women while killing the infidels! Or shit, let me go to China where I would probably be jailed if I bothered to ever talk politics.
While the problems you mention are real, and some of them more pronounced in "the west", I still see those problems in other countries. Renewable energy? Who cares about that, we need to keep burning wood and coal for our obviously better pre-industrial lifestyle.
If you are serious about progress being bad then I say go rub elbows with a polio victim. If you are already vaccinated then I suggest you go live in a village without modern water treatment and get back to me about those intestinal parasites. Hopefully you don't get stoned as a witch/sorcerer.