Thai police chief proposes tighter control of Internet

[samuibeachcomber]

Well, thanks for yet another blocked link

Social media will be next.Keep the people's traps shut and all will be fine, uncle prayat knows best!...a benevolent dictator?...next it will be any more than 3 people assembling in the street will be viewed as a threat to national security.Welcome to a thai (feema camp) coming to you soon!

[Thai at Heart]

How is he going to ban a Facebook page?

[daveAustin]

Chinaland.

[mikemac]

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You would be correct not to include me among their number.

Regardless who someone is or how much I disagree with them I would always defend their right to give their opinion, (see Voltaire quote).

I don't think anything will come of this latest threat from the Police Chief. Most crackdowns in Thailand amount to nothing.

and

...It would not bother me if the government did shut down the Guardian anyway, it is one-eyed and biased towards the Shin regime and the redshirts.

I'm a little confused about your support for free speech.

And you have every right to be, I could have phrased that comment about the Guardian better.

What I should have said was the government should not block the Guardian website, or any other site for that matter, but personally I find the Guardian to be a low quality rag that is one-eyed and biased towards the Shin regime and the redshirts, and could not care less whether it was active or not.

My apologies for the way I phrased my comments.

[SpaceKadet]

Germany

UK

China

Thailand

where is the free Internet?

It's called the DarkNet. That's what Internet was 20 years ago. We did create it to share porn and free thinking and free ideas.

[phoenixdoglover]

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You would be correct not to include me among their number.

Regardless who someone is or how much I disagree with them I would always defend their right to give their opinion, (see Voltaire quote).

I don't think anything will come of this latest threat from the Police Chief. Most crackdowns in Thailand amount to nothing.

and

...It would not bother me if the government did shut down the Guardian anyway, it is one-eyed and biased towards the Shin regime and the redshirts.

I'm a little confused about your support for free speech.

And you have every right to be, I could have phrased that comment about the Guardian better.

What I should have said was the government should not block the Guardian website, or any other site for that matter, but personally I find the Guardian to be a low quality rag that is one-eyed and biased towards the Shin regime and the redshirts, and could not care less whether it was active or not.

My apologies for the way I phrased my comments.

No problemo. I like your revised attitude better.

[mikemac]

No problemo. I like your revised attitude better.

As I said I do apologize and I hope we don't see internet censorship the way countries like China do. But I really don't think it will come to that.

The Thais really are not very good at "cracking down" on too much. Most of their crackdowns are soon forgotten.

[fitnesspm]

Just download 'TOR browser,' it's free and it's what other countries use when their government block information! It's the only safe way to browse the internet cause websites/government monitor your browsing.

https://www.torproject.org

Edited June 19, 2015 by fitnesspm

[Fat Haggis]

Which is EXACTLY what the Junta are doing, they are a small minority trying to impose their will on a MUCH LARGER MAJORITY, that being internet users.

[tbthailand]

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.

But as I told I never saw any news in Thailand blocked.

yellow & fascist sites in Thailand are A-OK for the junta...

[mikemac]

"yellow & fascist sites in Thailand are A-OK for the junta..."

BS !

Don't you know it is against forum rules to post anything that - ......."can be reasonably construed as false, inaccurate"..........

Prove you statement or retract it..................all your posts come straight out of the Little Red Book of Lies and Propaganda.

Don't know how you get away with it.

[onelasttime]

Emile Chartier, the noted French philisopher said it all.....

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have".

Just my 2 cents worth

[Robby nz]

If this topic proves nothing else it is just how much freedom of speech there is in this country.

But then internet access to as many people is important to countries who want to use it to spy on their own people.

[LannaGuy]

control, control, control

[LannaGuy]

"yellow & fascist sites in Thailand are A-OK for the junta..."

BS !

Don't you know it is against forum rules to post anything that - ......."can be reasonably construed as false, inaccurate"..........

Prove you statement or retract it..................all your posts come straight out of the Little Red Book of Lies and Propaganda.

Don't know how you get away with it.

living up to your kwaai avatar as usual

[MobileContent]

I guess Somyos has a supplier already on hand of which he gets a fat markup