A review on a post on Legal from My E-Commerce blog

After viewing the post, "new rules for cyber cafes soon", from "my E-commerce blog", I found the new rules have been established for Cyber Cafes. Hereby I have some brief comments regarding the rules and regulations set by government in order to control these kind of businesses.
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Before that, I would like to restate the rules and regulations set by our government. First of all, the Cyber Cafes should operate till midnight daily. Second, the premises must use tinted glasses to allow people to see through inside from outside. Third, the premises can only be allowed to operate at the ground floor. Fourth, those under 12 years old must be accompanied by their guardian or parents and can only enter in the premises area till 10pm. Fifth, the Cyber Cafes are prohibited from providing gaming activities, gambling, pornography, music and publications with negative element. Sixth, the Cyber Cafes are not allowed to sell cigarettes and alcohol. Lastly, Cyber Cafes have to record the entry and departure time of the patrons.

Although these rules and regulations have been established by government, I do not think that the rules will be followed by the owners of Cyber Cafes. This is because from my observation, I had been seen many Cyber Cafes, that do not close their operation at mid night. besides, the Cyber Cafes I had enter before also do not close their operation during mid night. This evidence can be shown in Bandar Sungai Long here, all the Cyber Cafes open 24 hours and still got a lot of teenager stay inside there atfer mid night. Even though the police are patrolling all along, they do not ask the owners of those Cyber Cafes to close their operation.

For the second rules set by the government, the premises have to use tinted glasses and located at ground floor. As what I had seen before, many Cyber Cafes in difference geographical area use tinted glasses and located at ground floor.

However, the government has establishing the rules, not to let children below the age of 12 enter the Cyber Cafes without parent accompanying them. In fact, I never seen this rules is follow by every Cyber Cafes because I saw many children who below the age of 12 at Cyber Cafes there alone. This will give negative impact to children.

Another rule is book log to record the entry and time of the patrons. The owner feels that it is unnecessary to record on every people who come into the cafe. Even if they do so, this will not guarantee the people will fill up details correctly. They may give false name and identification.

One of the rules are prohibited from providing a gaming activities but in fact, I have seen many of the cyber cafes were major in gaming purposes. From my observation towards those cyber cafes, many people go there is for playing games instead of studying. in addition, the worst thing that I even saw is that they did sell cigarettes to the customers inside the premises.


In conclusion, even though new rules have been established to restrict the cyber cafes' operation, there were majority of them do not stick to the rules as they wanted to make more profit. Therefore, the government should give some punishment to the owners of the cyber cafes who does not complied with the rules. For instance, compound should be given to the owner who does not follow the rules and their license should be terminated. So that they could not operate their business again in future.