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

[snoop1130]

 

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/

 

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[stoner]

hahahahahahahahahahah

[Sigmund]

Yes, only the local networks are permitted to cheat everbody in Thailand and not those awful farang networks. So next step will be to ban Google and Apple also ?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

13 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

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

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. ????

 

[jak2002003]

Good. 

[Martyjustice]

Next headline, productivity jumps by 150%. 

[Pdavies99]

6 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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To start:

 

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[findlay13]

Fake ads and scams ? Yeah right .

[BarraMarra]

next they will be wanting to go back into the 1900s and revert back to Siam.

[scubascuba3]

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 

[ChipButty]

Imagine that no Facebook? what would thai people do? the country would grind to a halt, 

[grubman]

I am sure if this happens the daily road toll will drop dramatically. ????️????️????????????????

[2baht]

What's Facebook? ????

[hotchilli]

14 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Imagine that no Facebook? what would thai people do? the country would grind to a halt, 

They'll survive with Tik-Tok

[jippytum]

Its true many people sre conned with fake ads and facebook do nothing to correct the problem. 

If they are can't protect the subscribers then a ban would be in order until facebook take some action to protect people from the hundreds of scammers currently  on facebook. 

[Bim Smith]

You could just geo block it. Why the theatre. We all know this has nothing to do with scams. Plenty of those on tik tok and other social media sites. Thais are addicted to their social media especially while riding a motorcycle so expect a riot of they were remotely successful. 

[SportRider]

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?

[fdimike]

Facebook is a useless gossip platform that provides no redeeming value.  Ban it now!

[stix40]

Just fell out of bed laughing ????????????

[rwill]

They better shut down Line too.

 

 

[rocketboy2]

10 minutes ago, fdimike said:

Facebook is a useless gossip platform that provides no redeeming value.  Ban it now!

I think that makes it very suitable for Thailand. 

[Deli]

14 minutes ago, fdimike said:

Facebook is a useless gossip platform that provides no redeeming value.  Ban it now!

You must beliving in a cave or a blue roofed house.

[stix40]

Soon be called Chinaland 

And join in the fun with 

North Korea, Myanmar , Russia, Turkmenistan and not forgetting Uganda.

 

[MrJ2U]

Total idiot.

 

Anyway can we can shut down this authoritarian "digital dinosaur".

 

He must think the total population are idiots or there afraid of public discourse. 

[MrJ2U]

7 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Imagine that no Facebook? what would thai people do? the country would grind to a halt, 

Or finally find a reason to get off there phones and revolt against controlling everyone's lives. 

[sikishrory]

52 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Imagine that no Facebook? what would thai people do? the country would grind to a halt, 

Use Instagram

[DjSilver]

Well,  we all know that Thai politicians have never been known for being smart ????????????

[MangoKorat]

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[Bundooman]

41 minutes ago, 2baht said:

What's Facebook? ????

Its a place where you can repeatedly post stupid, boring and ugly pictures of yourself and kin doing trivial things, make a complete A*se of yourself and not lose 'Face'!

[pepi2005]

Fartbook is very quick and effective in automatically detecting, filtering and censoring content questioning climate and corona propaganda (for example), yet for some reason, detecting scams, spam and left-wing extremism seems an unsolvable problem for this (and many other Silicon Valley) corporations.

I wonder why that is? Maybe the planet just hasn't enough computer power for that, dunno.