Clampdown On Pornographic Media And Publications

[george]

Clampdown planned on pornographic media and publications

BANGKOK: -- Rampant pornography materials available on Thailand's local market has prompted the Ministry of Culture to cooperate with police more closely in suppressing them, said a senior ministry official.

Permanent Secretary for Culture Vira Rojpojchanarat said several complaints regarding entertainment magazines showing pictures of near pornography which could arouse sexual sentiment had been lodged with him in the past.

These pictures could lure youngsters to copy, according to Mr. Vira, adding that he had raised the issue with Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Wongkot Maneerin on ways to suppress pornographic media and whether they had violated the printing law of BE 2484 (1941).

A ministry committee met recently to discuss seven types of media which could violate the law, including print media, the Internet, radio, television, TV materials, motion pictures and mobile phone applications, all of which offer opportunities to distribute materials which could be sexually suggestive.

Violations of the media-related media could face a maximum imprisonment of three years and a fine of Bt6,000.

--TNA 2007-05-06

[farangsay]

Clampdown planned on pornographic media and publications

BANGKOK: -- Rampant pornography materials available on Thailand's local market has prompted the Ministry of Culture to cooperate with police more closely in suppressing them, said a senior ministry official.

Is this saying that the Ministry of Culture were involved/implicated in this

"rampant pornography" and has now turned "supergrass" in return for immunity from

prosecution and a new identity?

Permanent Secretary for Culture Vira Rojpojchanarat said several complaints regarding entertainment magazines showing pictures of near pornography which could arouse sexual sentiment had been lodged with him in the past.

What a delightful phrase , "sexual sentiment" , only somebody from the Ministry of Culture could

have come up with this.

These pictures could lure youngsters to copy, according to Mr. Vira, adding that he had raised the issue with Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Wongkot Maneerin on ways to suppress pornographic media and whether they had violated the printing law of BE 2484 (1941).

A ministry committee met recently to discuss seven types of media which could violate the law, including print media, the Internet, radio, television, TV materials, motion pictures and mobile phone applications, all of which offer opportunities to distribute materials which could be sexually suggestive.

Violations of the media-related media could face a maximum imprisonment of three years and a fine of Bt6,000.

Could somebody please tell me how you violate the media-related media because I sure don't

want to do it if there's choky involved.

--TNA 2007-05-06

[blizzard]

what!

its ###### hard to find places selling penthouse.

and when i do find one the magazine aint worth a ###### satang.

[a2396]

I am sure glad someone is taking steps to protect the public morality. I am sure this will go a long way to bring up the ethical standards in our fair land. God (or some deity or other) forbid that our young people might be thinking about sex. Hopefully, with such protections in place, they won't know anything about it.

[rainman]

I am sure glad someone is taking steps to protect the public morality. I am sure this will go a long way to bring up the ethical standards in our fair land. God (or some deity or other) forbid that our young people might be thinking about sex. Hopefully, with such protections in place, they won't know anything about it.

Last I heard is they're trying to create a large population of Stork's in a park just outside Bangkok, to further prove the fact that babies are brought to this world by Stork's, not through sex as some evil people are claiming. I think once the Stork park, which was announced in 2007, is finished in 2094, all rumors about sex will quickly disappear.

[cclub75]

Keep pushing guys... it's perfect.

The more energy your loosing with such morality non sense, the more you won't see the boomerang coming back full speed in your face... It will hurt.

[richard10365]

I think if you got rid of "near pornography" you could save a lot of money on paper and electricity. You would have nothing in print and nothing on tv (except the news).

[John K]

This should go down real well. Without trying to be reactive, it sure sounds like this Minister is fighting for her job. Doing something that most certainly was not done, look forward several steps and not just one and I can see some negative implications for the Thai economy.

I wonder what would happen if people started complaining about depictions of bare breasted women seen in Thai art and culture. I have even seen murals of them in some public schools. That certainly would be amusing to see how that falls under this.

[erikr_]

This should go down real well. Without trying to be reactive, it sure sounds like this Minister is fighting for her job. Doing something that most certainly was not done, look forward several steps and not just one and I can see some negative implications for the Thai economy.

I wonder what would happen if people started complaining about depictions of bare breasted women seen in Thai art and culture. I have even seen murals of them in some public schools. That certainly would be amusing to see how that falls under this.

more holy then the pope TIT

[dkstoney]

If it's turning up in so many places, seems like a lot of people want it.

[Ijustwannateach]

It's hard enough to define pornography- I'm waiting for a definition of "near pornography"-

"I can't say what it is, but I know it when I see it"- sez the minister....

"No near-sex, please- we're Thai."

:D

[dkstoney]

Ministry in crackdown on sexy images

The Culture Ministry is working more closely with police to suppress what it calls the rampant proliferation of pornographic images in the Thai media.

The ministry has received several complaints about near-pornographic photographs appearing in entertainment magazines, permanent secretary Vira Rojpojchanarat said yesterday.

The images could arouse viewers and encourage youths to have sex, Vira said.

He has asked deputy national police chief General Wongkot Maneerin to use the Printing Act of 1941 to suppress pornography.

A ministry committee recently examined how the law could be applied to seven types of media - print publications, the Internet, radio, television, movies and mobile phones - that could be used to distribute sexually suggestive images.

Those who violate the law face up to three years in jail and a Bt6,000 fine.

The Nation

Edited May 7, 2007 by dkstoney

[Tony Clifton]

It's hard enough to define pornography- I'm waiting for a definition of "near pornography"-

"I can't say what it is, but I know it when I see it"- sez the minister....

"No near-sex, please- we're Thai."

:D

How the heck did the country's population reach a near 65 million?

[Jai Dee]

Social Development Ministry to use educational tools to fight piracy and obscene media

Ministry of Social Development and Human Security will use educational tools against the use of pirated CDs, DVDs as well as obscene media.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Development and Human Security, Paiboon Wattanasiritham (ไพบูลย์ วัฒนะศิริธรรม) reveals that the ministry’s Committee for Safe and Constructive Media has organized activities aimed to raise media literacy awareness among young people. The ministry also has a plan to amend laws concerning the media industry in order to reduce negative influence of the media on children and adolescents.

Mr Paiboon also reports that the committee has jointly set up operational centers with the Culture Monitoring Center to suppress piracy and sexually explicit media. The centers and the police have successfully raided many production sites of illegal media.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 08 May 2007

[OlRedEyes]

After cleaning up Thailands image by confiscating the one porn dvd that was floating around in Pantip, and declaring Patpong free of all illegal activity, the fearless leaders will now attack near-porn, that insidious doorway to hard porn that sucks in so many young otherwise-productive minds.

One week max and it should be hard to find near-porn in Thailand. What's on the agenda for next week. Child trafficking? Now there would be an interesting one for the culture-vultures.

[marquess]

Social Development Ministry to use educational tools to fight piracy and obscene media

Ministry of Social Development and Human Security will use educational tools against the use of pirated CDs, DVDs as well as obscene media.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Development and Human Security, Paiboon Wattanasiritham (ไพบูลย์ วัฒนะศิริธรรม) reveals that the ministry’s Committee for Safe and Constructive Media has organized activities aimed to raise media literacy awareness among young people. The ministry also has a plan to amend laws concerning the media industry in order to reduce negative influence of the media on children and adolescents.

Mr Paiboon also reports that the committee has jointly set up operational centers with the Culture Monitoring Center to suppress piracy and sexually explicit media. The centers and the police have successfully raided many production sites of illegal media.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 08 May 2007

I wonder if Thai Visa has joined the campaign?

[sriracha john]

The ministry also has a plan to amend laws concerning the media industry in order to reduce negative influence of the media on children.

I wonder if Thai Visa has joined the campaign?

Were you referring to the part in the above-noted quotation?

I bet the mods could relate to that...

Edited May 8, 2007 by sriracha john