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Thailand Censors 'Inappropriate' Websites

Posted by timothy on from the know-it-when-they-see-it dept.

In addition to putting a curfew on an online game (Ragnarok) and Internet cafes, Thailand also starts to censor 'inappropriate' sites. More details can be found here and here. Since the rise of the current administration two years ago, freedom of the press in Thailand has been more and more restricted. Big media, newspapers, telecom companies are now owned by the administration's cronies. It makes me wonder when the government will censor any opposition on the web using this 'inappropriate contents' pretext.

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  1. Related /. story by $exyNerdie · · Score: 2, Informative


    Related /. story

  2. Re:Some people are going to applaude censorship by lightspawn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who is good enough to decide what's good taste and what's bad taste for everyone?
    Who is good enough to decide what's appropriate and what's inappropriate for everyone?

    Fine companies with products such as these:

    * BESS
    * Cyber Patrol
    * WebSENSE
    * Net Nanny
    * SmartFilter
    * X-Stop
    * I-Gear
    * CYBERsitter

  3. Re:This happened last month in Iran... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    You didn't feed a troll, just a whiner.

    I'm sick of the news media ignoring Iran just because the government and their goons won't let any Western media take pictures. There were protests around the world and all the media report about Iran today is those unfortunate twins!

    Here's the information on the satellite uplink jamming. The jammed TV stations include NITV and Azadi TV.

    For information on today's protests in which 100,000 came out in Tehran, there is information from the BBC and the Jerusalem Post.

    First-hand accounts of today's events have been posted on sympathetic websites like Iran va Jahan and SMCCDI.

    Information on Internet censorship can be found here (parrotting the Iranian government line that it was all about sex) and more objective articles here and here.

    c)Pro-American regimes are what we're fighting against in many cases (or the degredation of Americanistic countries).

    A noble fight. But please don't lose sight of the rest of humanity's wish for even a smidgen of the developed world's freedom.