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Thai students to double as web censors


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BANGKOK POST (March 31)

 

The information and Communications technology Ministry has hired 59 students to screen inappropriate web sites over the summer.

 

The cyber inspector team has already filtered 1387 web sites during the past four months, however there were too many inappropriate web sites and the team needed assistance from volunteers.

 

The 59 students are aged between 13 and 25, 11 living upcountry. The students will be required to find the addresses of sites deemed pronographic, gambling-related, those that defame the Royal family, spam mail sites or websites that might impact national security.

 

Each student will get 4000 bahts for their work, which runs from 22 March to 22 May.

 

Dhanchanok Deschart said he joined the project to help build a clean web site environment for youths: "there is too much inappropriate content on the internet today, many students know about these sites so I want to work on the project in order to helo shape up our society".

 

Other who want to help add web sites to the goverment black list can do so by sending the address to the ICT Ministry at www......., the Royal Thai Police department at www.....and CAT telecom at www.....

 

(www. sites erased by myself)

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"...aged between 13 and ....

 

..required to find the addresses of sites deemed pornographic,.. "

 

Do you mean to say that the government is having teen-agers scour the web for pornography? Aren't these the very ones they are purport to protect? Come to think about if for a second, I guess I was at my at my peak, as far as spotting pornography when I was in my teens. Of course we didn't have photographs back then, only a few postcards grandpa sent from Europe...

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WTF kind of logic is this: "help build a clean web site environment for youths". This is like forcing all theatres to play only rated G movies. How hard is it to understand the web is not just used by kids so making Thailand's internet just kiddie web sites only limits its usefulness to everyone else.

 

Don't they know there is plenty of parental lock software out there that is finished and ready to use? This is the best of both worlds--perfect protection for youths and perfect freedom for adults. If they want to get fancy, preinstall it on systems sent to home users and have "rated G" machines at internet cafe's.

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