Thailand Censors 'Inappropriate' Websites

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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Some people are going to applaude censorship

[Smartcowboy]

No longer than yesterday I had a discussion with a girl who said she wants censorship in movies and television.

Her main argument was about the "bad taste" of some movies and tv shows.

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?

A mindless computer program?

Some censorship comity that don't knows me/you and thinks it can decide what I/you can look at?

Censorship = Abuse

Re:Some people are going to applaude censorship

[BigBir3d]

Public health is bullsh*&? (btw, "bullsh*&"? please tell me that was an intended censorship joke) Best I can tell, most of the public is pretty concerned with their health. By your logic we shouldn't have laws banning spaying machine gun fire in public - Go somewhere else if you think the bullets are dangerous.

Machine guns are illegal too...

Most of the general public is NOT concerned about their health (looka the obesity numbers, or smoking numbers, of US citizens).

My ire is due to the fact that cigs are legal to make, sell, use, and tax. But now it is illegal to use them in public in NYC (and CA too IIRC). If they are so bad, why are they still legal? Give me a good reason, other than taxes.

Drinking age is a a stupid law. When I was 12 I had access to beer and hard liquor. Guess what? I tried it. Tried smoking too. Who cares? Am I worse off because of it? No.

Federal highway money is a nice way of saying "extortion in this case is good." Same goes for the 75mph speed limit stuff (Anything over 65 or 70... not sure which, causes loss of percentage of fed hwy funds).

Most of this would not be a problem, if people stopped being friends to their kids, and actaully being parents. But I digress.

Don't worry:

[Elwood P Dowd]

You can still have sex with twelve year old boys in Thailand. You just can't read about it on the internet.