Add the mayor of this Filipino city, on the example of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to those in Asia and the Asian Pacific who are looking to crack down on sex and the cybercafe. Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has promised to put stronger measures into place to stanch the spread of cybersex in his city’s Internet cafes.
Arroyo ordered a nationwide crackdown on marketing mostly women to online users who visit cybercafes regularly, and Duterte has threatened to go for measures allowing the shuttering, before the customary three warnings, of any cybercafe that doesn’t crack down on the practice.
"I call on the people to report these operations to the nearest police station," Arroyo said in a January 31 speech to the Philippine National Police during their 14th anniversary celebration. Arroyo complimented the PNP for launching a drive to quash cybersex den operators, as she called cybercafe operators who allow the practice.
Police have already raided such particularly “hot” cybersex spots as Angeles, San Fernando, and La Pinas City.
Davao City Administrator Wendel Avisado also promised that local government would do what it could to “free Davao City from cybersex madness,” and also urged parents to watch their children in the wake of published Filipino reports saying more schoolgirls have become involved in the cybersex activity.
He also said an Internet Café Accrediting Board was created to monitor and determine if accredited Internet cafes were monitoring their businesses and their customers against cybersex activity.
