As announced recently, free roaming on the Internet in cybercafes is allowed without any censorship, monitoring or tracking on the part of the government agencies. He said with the new directive, a ministry regulation issued last year to check the misuse of the Internet and the spread of false information had been revoked. This included the need for operators of cybercafes to record the particulars of their customers, which no longer applied, he said. Dr Ting said his ministry would be issuing a circular to local authorities in a few days to explain and give directives regarding the free roaming in the Internet in cybercafes. Dr Ting, however, reminded cybercafe operators of their social responsibility to customers.
Cybercafes serve the nation's agenda to create a computer literate society.