Film And Tv Censorship In Thailand

[greenwanderer108]

I just find it so annoying when watching TV and the cigarette is sensored...as if anyone, especially younger kids couldn't figure out what's going on. It would be much better just cutting the scene out altogether. I'm not sure what censorship is like in the states now a days as I've been here for three years, but as far as I can remember it was just about as anal as here. Well, except for late night HBO and Cinemax, you could always see tits and stuff but even the HBO and Cinemax on UBC here doesn't seem to show anything. Maybe I'm wrong, please let me know if so.

To add to the topic, what's the whole international censorship scene like? I've heard the porn is sensored in Japan...(we can see and hear what they're doing, but genitals are censored---how stupid) anyway, all the Japanese sexual arts films I've ever seen weren't sensored.

And in Europe, I always hear that public Tv has lots of nudity. Is there any sensorship there, if so to what extent--alcohal, drugs, sex?

If anyone with good insight into the topic could shed some light for me,

Thanks

[chownah]

I just find it so annoying when watching TV and the cigarette is sensored

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I think its really great that they have made smoking annoy you!!!! Cigarette smoking is so annoying when done live and in your face it seems that the annoyance the censors make for you helps to make the scene more realistic.!!

Cigarettes are annoying and I thank Thai censors for helping us all to remember that! It's alot better than seeing someone smoking and finding it attractive or sexy...

Actually cigarettes are more than just annoying....they are actually unhealthy....and addictive. They did a study of addiction and found that a heroin addict is more likely to be able to quit than a cigarette smoker.

Of course you knew this already...I just thought that maybe you forgot....smokers tend to forget these things...addiction helps you to forget lots of things.....

[penzman]

The problem is not the cigarettes on tv. It's all those glorified crappy gangster "actors" waving guns and roughing up women.

[SandDragon]

On the international censorship front, on my first night in Saudi Arabia I watched an episode of Sex In The City which was surprising in a country where you get by admiring women's ankles and can't look up websites relating to breast cancer (or almost anything related to Thailand) because of the net censorship. On the South African sport channel which is beamed into Saudi, every second ad is for Jack Daniels - very cruel.

[camerata]

I just find it so annoying when watching TV and the cigarette is sensored...as if anyone, especially younger kids couldn't figure out what's going on. It would be much better just cutting the scene out altogether. I'm not sure what censorship is like in the states now a days as I've been here for three years, but as far as I can remember it was just about as anal as here. Well, except for late night HBO and Cinemax, you could always see tits and stuff but even the HBO and Cinemax on UBC here doesn't seem to show anything. Maybe I'm wrong, please let me know if so.

You don't see anything naughty on Thai TV or cable. A friend at UBC told me they buy a lot of the programmes from Singapore and they are already censored.

To add to the topic, what's the whole international censorship scene like? I've heard the porn is sensored in Japan...(we can see and hear what they're doing, but genitals are censored---how stupid) anyway, all the Japanese sexual arts films I've ever seen weren't sensored.

And in Europe, I always hear that public Tv has lots of nudity. Is there any sensorship there, if so to what extent--alcohal, drugs, sex?

Europe is OK on nudity and sex (if it's art!) but stricter than Asia on violence. Japan doesn't allow genitalia to be shown. Pay TV porno channels in the hotels have genitals pixilated out but they are still pretty hot. Regular TV is mostly game shows, talk shows, soaps and documentaries, with very few quality series or movies. Since almost everyone smokes in Japan, it wouldn't make much sense to censor smoking scenes! Starbucks is about the only place you can escape from the smoke.

Interestingly, Japan's censorship laws date from the time that General Douglas MacArthur was shogun there...

Edited June 9, 2005 by camerata

[bkk_mike]

If you don't want censorship, go to Spain.

Basically there was a backlash against any form of censorship there as a result of General Franco censoring things so much, so they have even had uncensored porn films on regular broadcast TV.

[Greer]

I just find it so annoying when watching TV and the cigarette is sensored

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I think its really great that they have made smoking annoy you!!!! Cigarette smoking is so annoying when done live and in your face it seems that the annoyance the censors make for you helps to make the scene more realistic.!!

Cigarettes are annoying and I thank Thai censors for helping us all to remember that! It's alot better than seeing someone smoking and finding it attractive or sexy...

Actually cigarettes are more than just annoying....they are actually unhealthy....and addictive. They did a study of addiction and found that a heroin addict is more likely to be able to quit than a cigarette smoker.

Of course you knew this already...I just thought that maybe you forgot....smokers tend to forget these things...addiction helps you to forget lots of things.....

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....hahaha...well said

[roscoe]

I just find it so annoying when watching TV and the cigarette is sensored...as if anyone, especially younger kids couldn't figure out what's going on. It would be much better just cutting the scene out altogether. I'm not sure what censorship is like in the states now a days as I've been here for three years, but as far as I can remember it was just about as anal as here. Well, except for late night HBO and Cinemax, you could always see tits and stuff but even the HBO and Cinemax on UBC here doesn't seem to show anything. Maybe I'm wrong, please let me know if so.

To add to the topic, what's the whole international censorship scene like? I've heard the porn is sensored in Japan...(we can see and hear what they're doing, but genitals are censored---how stupid) anyway, all the Japanese sexual arts films I've ever seen weren't sensored.

And in Europe, I always hear that public Tv has lots of nudity. Is there any sensorship there, if so to what extent--alcohal, drugs, sex?

If anyone with good insight into the topic could shed some light for me,

Thanks

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Will this flying car of yours have tv for the passengers?

[Zarkow]

Don't clump all of Europe into one sentence. We are a LOT of different countries, with different religions and governments. So, in short, we have everything from 'ban, ban, ban' to 'hardcore late at night, can swear, smoke and behaive and it passes censorship - since there exists none' (however, people might complain afterwards...).

[meadish_sweetball]

Don't clump all of Europe into one sentence. We are a LOT of different countries, with different religions and governments. So, in short, we have everything from 'ban, ban, ban' to 'hardcore late at night, can swear, smoke and behaive and it passes censorship - since there exists none' (however, people might complain afterwards...).

Swedish national TV is rather restrictive with violence though.... unlike the commercial channels we have, but since they are mainly broadcast out of the UK they claim they cannot be bound by Swedish law. At least this is how they get away with spamming little kids with commercials. As for porn, it is available as a late night service through satellite and cable networks, but not everyone is entirely happy about this fact.

And Zarkow is right, there are major differences between the policies of different European nations.