Thailand's govt pressures Facebook, Line to censor online posts

[PaullyW]

The idiocity of so many of our fellow farangs is not so much in the fact that they, despite all the decades of Thai history, actually believed in this Junta. What is most ridiculous is that they believe that any side (PTP, Junta, etc) differ in any substantive way!

THEY ARE MOSTLY ALL THE SAME. ALL OF THEM!

lol

Agreed!

They dont seem to realise thailand is incapable of forming a a clean enough government worth voting for and call eachother junta or thaksin fan boys,

Although after more than a decade here i fear the thai electorate suffer the same idiocy.

Yeah. Guys seem to think it's like back home where parties like labor and liberal or Republican and Democrat where at least the parties are shaped by different ideals.

Thais at this stage in their evolution are shaped mostly by one thing: patronage to a group. Feudalism. End of

PTP have not a single significantly intellectual thought that differs from the Junta or reds or yellows. They are all stone basic folks trying for their network to win.

[Transporter]

I'm still confused about how they judge what content they could justifiably consider as harmful to the country. If I post about having to pay off a.policeman bribe or how I got forced to pay three times the fee or cost or if I post about how bad my trip in Thailand was or send a vdo of a chinaman pissing or shitting on the street doesn't that hurt Thailand's tourism, hence, damaging the country?

Or, if I posted a vdo of someone getting kidnapped by the army or of a business using slave Labour or even a girl on walking Street offering sex for money. All would.damage people view of Thailand in the gov viewpoint. So I guess my point is, if the line and fb jump to remove your content posted just because Thailand thinks it damages how they want people to think about them then all freedoms are gone and for anyone and in any country.

Maybe 2 men sentenced to death marks the end of Free Speech!

[outsider]

This is a little different to an article I read yesterday.

The government have been requesting that content be removed from Google and other social media sites without a court order on a case by case basis. The reasoning is that it takes too long to go through the legal proceedings required to obtain such orders.

I read elsewhere that facebook mentioned the possibility of withdrawing service from Thailand for some reason or another which I won't repeat here.

If Facebook withdrew service from Thailand, most of the population will go into shock and depression. Without FB, these people will have nothing else to do on their phones, and will be forced to look up - and everyone will be looking at one another blankly - across dining tables, in restaurants, in social gatherings etc. not knowing what to do. For these have lost the ability to communicate and interact with another human being. The country will grind to a halt. Literally. No, whatever you do, don't let FB go.

[metisdead]

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[Beats56]

Cripes if they want to spy on you they can. They could turn your pc/phone camera and mic on with out you knowing. And all them permissions you agree to when you d/l app. Remember Snoden. Hé would put his phone in the freezer. He knew.

[johng]

Cripes if they want to spy on you they can. They could turn your pc/phone camera and mic on with out you knowing. And all them permissions you agree to when you d/l app. Remember Snoden. Hé would put his phone in the freezer. He knew.

Christ where's my tin foil hat ...maybe a new business venture " Faraday cage and tin foil hats R us "