BlogHer - Online Sexual Harassment of a Blogher in Cambodia - Comments

Lord Playboy ??

cracked up and lovin it... — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:39:14 -0500

SAY WHAT?????
If it's offensive to you, don't read it. If it's hurting someone, he's wrong.
Live and let live, but DO NOT hurt anyone in any form in your process of living.
Because I said so !!!!!!

cracked up and lovin it...

Khmer440.com is a great site

mythicaldude — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:16:27 -0500

Overtly sexual? So what? Offensive to some? A bigger so what!

www.Khmer440.com is a GREAT blog, a great site and Lord Playboy is its best and funniest correspondant in my opinion.

I don't know anything abut what he may or may not have done, but I do know that I support freedom of speech above almost anything else.

That's frightening

Cat H — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:01:53 -0500

I am glad that it seems the authorities are responding appropriately and investigating the person who was stalking and impersonating Cambochica.

Cyberstalking is a serious problem in South Korea (where I'm currently living). A recent survey indicated 1 in 10 Koreans has been the victim of some type of cyberviolence. It's gotten so bad that a sizeable number of people are starting to call for some sort of government intervention.

Complaints filed with the government's Korea Internet Safety Commission more than doubled to 42,643 last year from 18,031 in 2003. Women have reported sexual harassment. A 16-year- old schoolgirl accused of informing on an abusive teacher ran away after her photos and insults were splashed on her school Web site. A singer struggled with rumors that she was a man. Twist Kim, a singer and comedian, had a nervous breakdown after pornographic Web sites proliferated under his name, as if he had created them, causing television stations to spurn him.

It's a good idea to remember how vulnerable we can be online.

Online Sexual Harassment of a Blogher in Cambodia

Beth Kanter — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:30:44 -0500

Cambodian Blogosphere and Cyberspace is, for the most part, a warm and supportive online community of Cambodians in Cambodia and spread around the world, ex-pats in country blogging about their experiences, and others like me who are interested in the country's beautiful culture.

Sadly, there is a dark side. Read Jinja's post from last week about blogher Cambochica (Angie Manzano) a writer for 'Off Our Backs' magazine and who was volunteering in country for Voluntary Service Overseas. Her blog started to attract the attention of Darren Conquest (a.k.a. Lord Playboy, a forum moderator at www.khmer440.com, an online community interested in discussing tourist attractions. ) There were flames, nasty comments, personal attacks, and plagerism. Jinja provides links and detailed accounts here and here. (Lord Playboy's version of events is here)

Details are Sketchy, another expat blogher blogging from Cambodia, tells us that Lord Play

"..... has started removing offending content from the Khmer440 web site is likely indicative of the legal situation in which he currently finds
himself. But itâ€™s probably too late to start feigning ignorance now.

Nor is his situation likely to get any better. In fact, it could getmuch, much worse. Along with Cambodiaâ€™s tiny expat blogosphere, all thecommotion has apparently sparked the interest of local womenâ€™s groups, who are finding the overt sexual content of the Khmer440 web site just a wee bit disconcerting, perhaps even criminal.

But credit where credit is due. The whole affair really has demonstrated a fairly superhuman display of daftness on the part of Lord Playboy. By all tellings, the guy tried to pick a fight with a online stranger, and when the stranger dismissed his advances, he worked himself up into such a spittle-flecked rage that he now finds himself in intensive care due to self-inflicted wounds, with no one to blame for his troubles but himself."