SoiCowboyTony Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 Is Thailand filled with Republicans? From the Bangkok Post, October 27, 2005 'Inappropriate content' to be cleansed from cyber space The Information and Communications Technology Ministry has plans to make cyber space free from "inappropriate content", beginning next month, under a scheme known as Cyber Clean. Kanawat Wasinsungworn, assistant to the ICT minister, said yesterday the ministry expects to sign an agreement with webmasters and website owners on Nov 7. ICT ministry representatives, cyber inspectors and website operators met on Wednesday to discuss the details. Mr Kanawat said Cyber Clean had drawn positive feedback from the 50 favourite websites. The Cyber Clean icon would appear on the participating websites. If web users spot improper language or images or any content deemed a threat to national security, they could click the Cyber Clean icon. The website contents, IP address, URL and pictures will be copied and sent to cyber inspectors for examination. The webmaster would be served a warning if the contents were determined improper. CAT Telecom would be responsible for coordinating with overseas websites. Mr Kanawat said Cyber Clean would target only pornographic content. There were no plans to interfere in political web-boards. He denied having proposed that internet users be required to give their ID numbers before posting messages on web-boards. "I've never said anything about it. And there's no way we'll force people to do it," he said. A source said that some website owners had suggested that internet users be required to give their ID numbers before connecting. It was suggested this would prevent cyber crime and deter users from posting improper messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 :rotfl: (directed at them, not at you) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 All, Saw this the other day in the paper (Post). Wonder if it could have any effect on this board, maybe the ex-pats? Saw they also wanted to send info to govs outside of Thailand as well about the content of overseas websites! Cent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 IMHO the real meaning of this campain is that Mr. T. is extending his fight against freedom of press to the web. Over the time you will see that there will by some "collateral damage" done to websites critical to the current government. The fight against pornography will only be a tool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 kamui, I suspect you may be right in this. Cent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Actually what Thaksin is after is more diversity and more press. He believes that by having more papers, more sites, that when a few "pick on him" he'll have other sites that will back him DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 "He believes that by having more papers, more sites, that when a few "pick on him" he'll have other sites that will back him" any maybe move the spotlight away from the south for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Nervous_Dog said:Actually what Thaksin is after is more diversity and more press. He believes that by having more papers, more sites, that when a few "pick on him" he'll have other sites that will back him DOG That's a strange theory. His cronies try to buy major newspapers, he tries to silence journalists and critical newspapers with massive lawsuits and reduced local radio to a range of max 15 miles, e.g. It's obvious that TRT wants to silence all major critical voices by buying them or forcing them out of the market in exchange with low quality entertainment. Concernig your theory TRT just wants to broaden the media landscape, which would be ok _without_ the moves to eliminate critical non governmental voices. But that's not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Not really, there have been major changes in ownership in newspapers here that has gone unreported. The Bangkok Post got reported but otherrs are happening or happened! DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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