Will Thai Reforms Make Censorship Worse?

[bingobongo]

how nice, nothing like insulting the population............nice to see the boys in green taking over the media.........welcome to your police state........

cultural surveillance department? you have got to be kidding.........big brother.......

oh the irony that given LOS has high levels of "psuedo legalized" prostitution and naughty nightlife that they want to "clean up" the media.......i guess the junta will continue to do as they wish

Will Thai Reforms Make Censorship Worse?

In the opposite corner is Ladda Tangsupachai, 58, head of the Cultural Surveillance Department at the Ministry of Culture and a prime mover behind the legislation. Her department already scrutinizes television shows, magazines, Internet cafés and schoolgirl fashions; they are keen to take on movies. "Uneducated" is the term Ladda uses to describe Thai filmgoers. "They're not intellectuals — that's why we need ratings," she says.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...1670261,00.html

Edited October 18, 2007 by bingobongo

[think_too_mut]

Losing the plot, Bingobongo?

BTW the link is not working.

[londonthai]

Cultural Surveillance Department[/b][/u] at the Ministry of Culture and a prime mover behind the legislation. Her department already scrutinizes television shows, magazines, Internet cafés and schoolgirl fashions; they are keen to take on movies. "Uneducated" is the term Ladda uses to describe Thai filmgoers. "They're not intellectuals — that's why we need ratings," she says.

you have to realise that those varius depertments watching over the population is nothing more than extending control over peoples lives and are stuffed by the upper class half-educated wifes of some aristocrat or general.

why should they regulate internet cafes which are about independent, unobstracted educational tool for children or why should they influence in any way schoolgirl's fashion? It's this total control over the private life which make them like mindless robots - uncreative, without initiative and passive in their lifes and workplace.

[jackspratt]

how nice, nothing like insulting the population............nice to see the boys in green taking over the media.........welcome to your police state........

cultural surveillance department? you have got to be kidding.........big brother.......

oh the irony that given LOS has high levels of "psuedo legalized" prostitution and naughty nightlife that they want to "clean up" the media.......i guess the junta will continue to do as they wish

Will Thai Reforms Make Censorship Worse?

In the opposite corner is Ladda Tangsupachai, 58, head of the Cultural Surveillance Department at the Ministry of Culture and a prime mover behind the legislation. Her department already scrutinizes television shows, magazines, Internet cafés and schoolgirl fashions; they are keen to take on movies. "Uneducated" is the term Ladda uses to describe Thai filmgoers. "They're not intellectuals — that's why we need ratings," she says.

The article (here http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...1670261,00.html ) is hardly news. It is about the recently introduced film classification (rating) system introduced by the government (not the army). And discussed previously at length on this forum.

Whether or not you agree such a system is good/bad, necessary/unnecessary, Thailand is hardly an orphan in international terms in having a ratings system. For a start the US, Canada, Australia, UK and NZ have them in one form or another. Are they also police states?