Thailand’s Digital Minister Seeking Court Order to Shut Down Facebook over Fake Ads and Scams

[1sickpuppy]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

In a late afternoon press conference on Monday, August 21st, 2023, Thailand’s Caretaker Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwat Thanakamanusorn stated that his ministry is planning to seek a court order to shut down Facebook in Thailand for allegedly failing to take action on numerous scams, frauds, and fake ads created by users.

 

The Minister stated that the Digital Ministry has tried numerous times to work with Facebook on removing and taking action against scammers using its platform but claimed the company had not taken any meaningful action.

 

Chaiwat said there have been over 200,000 victims of fraud on Facebook from various ads, fake marketplace scams, and other fraud. This totalled over ten billion baht in financial damages to users affected. Chaiwat said complaints against users being scammed on Facebook to police were regular and that as Facebook was not taking action on their end, according to him, Thailand planned to seek a court order to legally shutter the service, joining countries like China and North Korea.

 

This is not the first time Thailand has threatened to ban Facebook, as a similar threat took place in May of 2017 by the then Military Junta led by Prayut Chan-O’-Cha. That threat was over website links providing incorrect “misinformation” according to the government that Thailand demanded to be removed.

 

By Adam Judd

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/08/21/thailands-digital-minister-seeking-court-order-to-shut-down-facebook-in-thailand-over-fake-ads-and-scams/

 

-- The Pattaya News 2023-08-21

 

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Why does he not go after Lazada , is full of copy righted stuff

[Rockhopper]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

May of 2017 by the then Military Junta led by Prayut Chan-O’-Cha. That threat was over website links providing incorrect “misinformation”

Does he only want correct misinformation?

[baipaibkk]

6 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

It's Facebook group admin who are too lazy to review posts, i see scams every day and report them. I hear sponsored ads may be fake, that's down to Facebook 

It's up to Facebook. I have also reported a number of scams. All without any reaction from Facebook. The scammers have never been removed from Facebook. Facebook does a bad job.

[Guderian]

Go on, let's settle this the old way, I want to see Khun Chaiwat in a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg, lol!

[Colabamumbai]

Take it and utube offline in Thailand. Who needs them, only poor suckers. 

[scubascuba3]

5 hours ago, flexomike said:

you need to get a life

It would help if losers like you reported scams also, you know, help others

[animatic]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

In a late afternoon press conference on Monday, August 21st, 2023, Thailand’s Caretaker Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwat Thanakamanusorn stated that his ministry is planning to seek a court order to shut down Facebook in Thailand for allegedly failing to take action on numerous scams, frauds, and fake ads created by users.

 

The Minister stated that the Digital Ministry has tried numerous times to work with Facebook on removing and taking action against scammers using its platform but claimed the company had not taken any meaningful action.

 

Chaiwat said there have been over 200,000 victims of fraud on Facebook from various ads, fake marketplace scams, and other fraud. This totalled over ten billion baht in financial damages to users affected. Chaiwat said complaints against users being scammed on Facebook to police were regular and that as Facebook was not taking action on their end, according to him, Thailand planned to seek a court order to legally shutter the service, joining countries like China and North Korea.

 

This is not the first time Thailand has threatened to ban Facebook, as a similar threat took place in May of 2017 by the then Military Junta led by Prayut Chan-O’-Cha. That threat was over website links providing incorrect “misinformation” according to the government that Thailand demanded to be removed.

 

By Adam Judd

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/08/21/thailands-digital-minister-seeking-court-order-to-shut-down-facebook-in-thailand-over-fake-ads-and-scams/

 

-- The Pattaya News 2023-08-21

 

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What a prat!! Pratfall coming as he has to back track as the outraged howls rise above his talking level.

[Sydebolle]

1 hour ago, Guitar God said:

Yeah, right. Facebook accepts and continues to run ads offering thousands of dollars of products (Amazon returns of iPhones, iPads, PS5’s AirPods, laptops, tools for $49.95, including free worldwide shipping. 
 

You can’t ship a pallet across the street for fifty bucks. It’s an obvious scam but FB allows it and doesn’t care as long as the seller pays for his sponsored ads. 
 

I don’t expect they’ll shut down FB but it’s a wake-up call that FB can’t support annd promote  obvious and blatant scams.  Facebook was successfully sued in the EU for similar dirty dealings. 
 

 

Common sense prevails - FB is "only" the messenger ..... 

[Sydebolle]

So the local thieves, cheaters and highway robbery experts got "international" competition? 

Who will go and tell His Excellency, the Digital Economy and Society Minister, Mr Chaiwat Thanakamanusorn to have coffee with his counterpart running the Ministry of Education? During that coffee break it might surface, that you have to shut down all those stupidity centres called "Thai schools" and start educating basics. After 15 years of schooling in Thailand some cannot even complete a job application form, handle an ATM machine (except withdrawing money of course) or optimize the use of a computer/smart phone. 

Shutting down Facebook has a completely different script; the boys in power (present and future) have all the interest in closing down those hatred social networks as they cannot control them and have enlightened the Thai youngsters more in the last five, ten years - compared to what happened over the last hundred years until social media became a subject - me thinks!

Close Facebook, what an silly idea ????????????

[tigerbeer]

They should shut down Facebook here. people are lazy doing nothing except look FB all day long. 

[flexomike]

How do you know for a fact that something is a scam unless you or someone you know got scammed? I know there are plenty of things on facebook that are absolutely ridiculous, but I am not the facebook police. How do you get off calling me a loser, you have never even met me.

[Mikelthai]

The truth is, the former thai ( fake ) prime Minister A.V. never wanted the world to know about the ugly truth going on in Thailand  ! 

And so it is the same with the still also fake prime Minister ! 

The genuine truth is NOT Allowed in Thailand 

LOL 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 hours ago, sambum said:

Greed?

Gullibility, lack of financial literacy and meaningful education?

 

[Jiggo]

Never buy anything off Facebook or allow this really beautiful girl who popped out from nowhere on your friends list.

That will stop some of it.

 

[Confuscious]

7 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

It's Facebook group admin who are too lazy to review posts, i see scams every day and report them. I hear sponsored ads may be fake, that's down to Facebook 

There is no such thing as a Facebook group admin.
Facebook admins are AI processes running and acting like real humans, sending every complaint straight to the Recycle Bin.
And for the users who are responding that there are no "Fake Users" on Facebook, there was a few weeks ago a Facebook seller acting as IKEA with the name and symbol of IKEA in his user name.
IKEA was sending a complaint to the Thai authorities and not to the Facebook police.
Europe is sending the same message to Facebook and I hope that Facebook will lose all his followers because of the lazyness.

 of the SEO.

[PremiumLane]

8 hours ago, Martyjustice said:

Next headline, productivity jumps by 150%. 

Next headline, this dude doesn't know that only boomers use Facebook anymore

[BarraMarra]

7 hours ago, SportRider said:

It would be interesting to know if there are proportionally more scam victims in Thailand than in other countries, and if so, what might be the reason?

Simple SportRider Most Thais are not the sharpest tools in the Box if there told the Earth is flat  then it's flat.

[PETERTHEEATER]

The major social media companies will citcle the wagons and consolidate. Their new name will be You TwitFace.

[MrJ2U]

7 hours ago, sikishrory said:

Instagram

Same company.

 

You need one to work with the other.

 

I don't use Facebook, but I don't think the government should be in control of what people can and can't do on social media.  

 

 

[JeffersLos]

Forget politics. 

 

There would be war on the streets. 

[DjSilver]

7 hours ago, 2baht said:

...................but they all seem to end up rich beyond their wildest dreams??? 

Is corruption being smart in the land of uneducated kwais?

[2baht]

2 minutes ago, DjSilver said:

Is corruption being smart in the land of uneducated kwais?

Like shooting fish in a barrel!

[newnative]

Oh, my.  Where to begin.  Can't believe he wants Thailand to be in the same fine company regarding human rights with China, let alone North Korea.   How he was able to utter that with a straight face is beyond me.   Plenty of scams all over the internet, might as well get rid of the whole internet all together to be on the safe side.  

[scubascuba3]

2 hours ago, baipaibkk said:

It's up to Facebook. I have also reported a number of scams. All without any reaction from Facebook. The scammers have never been removed from Facebook. Facebook does a bad job.

not facebook, group admins job is to get rid of those scam posts

[Burma Bill]

16 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Obviously this guy and his cohorts have no clue of what it means to be a "caretaker" official, especially when it comes to this kind of a major, controversial move.

 

You wanna see a rebellion in Thailand, just try taking away their Facebook. ????

 

Yes indeed, thanks. Just imagine how many thousands of tourists not being able to contact family/friends back home with holiday experiences and photos.  TAT take note!

[VBF]

4 hours ago, Rockhopper said:

Does he only want correct misinformation?

Just other people's ????

[bizboi]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

In a late afternoon press conference on Monday, August 21st, 2023, Thailand’s Caretaker Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwat Thanakamanusorn stated that his ministry is planning to seek a court order to shut down Facebook in Thailand for allegedly failing to take action on numerous scams, frauds, and fake ads created by users.

 

The Minister stated that the Digital Ministry has tried numerous times to work with Facebook on removing and taking action against scammers using its platform but claimed the company had not taken any meaningful action.

 

Chaiwat said there have been over 200,000 victims of fraud on Facebook from various ads, fake marketplace scams, and other fraud. This totalled over ten billion baht in financial damages to users affected. Chaiwat said complaints against users being scammed on Facebook to police were regular and that as Facebook was not taking action on their end, according to him, Thailand planned to seek a court order to legally shutter the service, joining countries like China and North Korea.

 

This is not the first time Thailand has threatened to ban Facebook, as a similar threat took place in May of 2017 by the then Military Junta led by Prayut Chan-O’-Cha. That threat was over website links providing incorrect “misinformation” according to the government that Thailand demanded to be removed.

 

By Adam Judd

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/08/21/thailands-digital-minister-seeking-court-order-to-shut-down-facebook-in-thailand-over-fake-ads-and-scams/

 

-- The Pattaya News 2023-08-21

 

- Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here.

 

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Looks like Tha Chinese masters want tic toc only 

[bizboi]

2 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

Forget politics. 

 

There would be war on the streets. 

There wasn’t when the election was ignored!

[bizboi]

3 hours ago, tigerbeer said:

They should shut down Facebook here. people are lazy doing nothing except look FB all day long. 

To Some Thais it’s their only income. _ are you suggesting we should take that from them on a little whim?

[zoltannyc]