Thai police chief proposes tighter control of Internet

[webfact]

Police chief proposes tighter control of Internet
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Somyos Pumpanmuang Wednesday proposed the use of single Internet gateway so that the authorities could check and filter out inappropriate information and photos.

Somyos raised the proposal after he said the authorities had found that a website abroad, daengdeedee.com spread rumours about a possible countercoup.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Police-chief-proposes-tighter-control-of-Internet-30262510.html


-- The Nation 2015-06-17

[dageurreotype]

Well, thanks for yet another blocked link

[deckape]

Does the good General have enough knowledge of the subject matter to know if his 'plan' would be effective?

[baboon]

The tighter the lid is screwed down, the more dramatic the eventual outcome. Proposals such as these are an admission of failure.

[phuketrichard]

its slow enough already and now they want slow it down more so they can "check"

[Always18]

That pesky interwebby thing again............why don't we just invoke article 44?

Edited June 17, 2015 by Always18

[h90]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

[Always18]

its slow enough already and now they want slow it down more so they can "check"

I think you mean ".......so they can check it even more."

[huahinjoe]

So what they do with the ones using satellite internet?

[masquerade]

Wow! the General/PM will be creaming his jeans with this suggestion.

[baboon]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

Are you suggesting for a moment that the interweb is no more free in Germany and the UK than in China and Thailand?

[jcsmith]

Since the coup it seems like that scene in the old Superman movie where he rotates the earth faster than the speed of light and sends time backwards. This country is going backwards at warp speed.

[doggie1955]

Can you say North Korea...

[ukrules]

There's already a system in place for blocking entire websites based on the domain name and/or individual URLs from what I've seen.

All they need to do is add it to the list.

[Fat Haggis]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

I presume you've lived in those countries to make those claims. You sure do sound like you want to be a Thai more than anything in the world.

You just don't get it do you? These are draconian measures used to control their people, and THIS is what they mean by giving the people democracy?

Sure they do!!

Edited June 17, 2015 by Fat Haggis

[z42]

Can you say North Korea...

The fact you're even suggesting North Korea confirms fool status. Thailand doesn't resemble it in the slightest or if it did you'd already be in a gulag along with 3 generations of your family in tow

[Just1Voice]

George Orewell is smiling in his grave.

[aussieinthailand]

its slow enough already and now they want slow it down more so they can "check"

It has nothing to do with "checking" it's very much about control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't know that rumors were illegal in Thailand, or is it only rumors are illegal for the selected few?

Seems as though this government is seriously frightened of it's people having information that is not censored first?

[JOC]

>>Somyos raised the proposal after he said the authorities had found that a website abroad, daengdeedee.com spread rumours about a possible countercoup.<< Quote

A website called daengdeedee ??

Probably opened by M Redshirt who conveniently reactivated his FB account just before the Samui bomb........ .

[JOC]

Come on junta-lovers, defend this one!!

[Emster23]

Information is power, and they want all the power possible. Already see that lovely "not returning happiness" (or whatever it says) if I try to go to UK Guardian... Apologists better hurry in to TV and post about what a positive thing this is, before TV gets the big shutdown....

[Baerboxer]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

I presume you've lived in those countries to make those claims. You sure do sound like you want to be a Thai more than anything in the world.

You just don't get it do you? These are draconian measures used to control their people, and THIS is what they mean by giving the people democracy?

Sure they do!!

From the same Police Chief who won't make a decision regarding stripping a certain criminal of his police rank.

Remember when the head of the cyber police division was warning people they would be hunted down and prosecuted if they even dared clicking on "like" on any post that dared to be critical of the PTP regime?

What a complete joke the police here are. Nothing to do with democracy - they wouldn't have clue what the word means.

[h90]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

Are you suggesting for a moment that the interweb is no more free in Germany and the UK than in China and Thailand?

Well, in Thailand I never went on a page that was blocked, but I am not into discussing the royal family or gambling.

In UK I read in the newspaper (no own experience) that they block everything p0rn and they start now to block hate speech (which is a great excuse to block other political opinions).

Last time I was in Germany thepiratebay was blocked, considering how many video games, music, books are illegal/banned in Germany I guess there is a lot blocked on the internet as well.

China is blocking Gmail (or all Google) I got told which I would notice, which is strange considering how much censoring Google is doing already.

But as I told I never saw any news in Thailand blocked. I am sure there are things blocked but I think 99% are casinos and red shirt propaganda.

Still I think it is wrong but not that hot, shocking news that some Asian country is blocking some content on the internet.

[Baerboxer]

Come on junta-lovers, defend this one!!

The police chief is proposing this. He seems to want to be everybody's friend.

Or their again, where does he get his ideas from?

[alocacoc]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

Are you suggesting for a moment that the interweb is no more free in Germany and the UK than in China and Thailand?

Well, in Thailand I never went on a page that was blocked, but I am not into discussing the royal family or gambling.

In UK I read in the newspaper (no own experience) that they block everything p0rn and they start now to block hate speech (which is a great excuse to block other political opinions).

Last time I was in Germany thepiratebay was blocked, considering how many video games, music, books are illegal/banned in Germany I guess there is a lot blocked on the internet as well.

China is blocking Gmail (or all Google) I got told which I would notice, which is strange considering how much censoring Google is doing already.

But as I told I never saw any news in Thailand blocked. I am sure there are things blocked but I think 99% are casinos and red shirt propaganda.

Still I think it is wrong but not that hot, shocking news that some Asian country is blocking some content on the internet.

For instance;

The Human Rights Watch Thailand web page, as it appeared Thursday. The government has blocked access to the page inside the country.

Trying to directly HRW.org/asia/thailand results in a redirection to a splash screen from the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, which reads "this website has inappropriate content and has been suspended."

Some web pages from BBC One, BBC Two, CNN, Yahoo! News, the Post-Intelligencer newspaper (Seattle, USA), and The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Australia) dealing with Thai political content are blocked

Then, www.dailymail.co.uk

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[Praematura]

Free proxy. Done.

[phycokiller]

was doing some research on Thai history and was surprised that a lot of sites that I would have thought were LM havent been blocked. the one site I do know of that was blocked recently was documenting the armies connections with various scams. I think they are mostly just concerned with hiding their own corruption from the general public.

[johnmcc6]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

Are you suggesting for a moment that the interweb is no more free in Germany and the UK than in China and Thailand?

Well, in Thailand I never went on a page that was blocked, but I am not into discussing the royal family or gambling.

In UK I read in the newspaper (no own experience) that they block everything p0rn and they start now to block hate speech (which is a great excuse to block other political opinions).

Last time I was in Germany thepiratebay was blocked, considering how many video games, music, books are illegal/banned in Germany I guess there is a lot blocked on the internet as well.

China is blocking Gmail (or all Google) I got told which I would notice, which is strange considering how much censoring Google is doing already.

But as I told I never saw any news in Thailand blocked. I am sure there are things blocked but I think 99% are casinos and red shirt propaganda.

Still I think it is wrong but not that hot, shocking news that some Asian country is blocking some content on the internet.

They have blocked a story on 17 year old Bindi Irwin about her growing up. She is the daughter of Steve Irwin the crockodile man from Oz. An eco warrior who should be open to everyone. Only descriptive word is stupid.

[eddie61]

read all about it in the Daily Mail here...... er.... maybe not

Germany
UK
China
Thailand

where is the free Internet?

Are you suggesting for a moment that the interweb is no more free in Germany and the UK than in China and Thailand?

Well, in Thailand I never went on a page that was blocked, but I am not into discussing the royal family or gambling.

In UK I read in the newspaper (no own experience) that they block everything p0rn and they start now to block hate speech (which is a great excuse to block other political opinions).

Last time I was in Germany thepiratebay was blocked, considering how many video games, music, books are illegal/banned in Germany I guess there is a lot blocked on the internet as well.

China is blocking Gmail (or all Google) I got told which I would notice, which is strange considering how much censoring Google is doing already.

But as I told I never saw any news in Thailand blocked. I am sure there are things blocked but I think 99% are casinos and red shirt propaganda.

Still I think it is wrong but not that hot, shocking news that some Asian country is blocking some content on the internet.

[dageurreotype]

lots of sites/pages blocked

andrew drumond ,

to mention 1

but extremely easy to get around

If you've a VPN.

Edited June 17, 2015 by dageurreotype