OPINION

When Thainess means gotta ban'em all

By Don Sambandaraksa, Correspondent -

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Whenever disruptive innovation reaches the shores of Thailand, time and again the knee-jerk reaction is to make a huge fuss, ban it as yet another Western evil, launch an “improved” and “appropriate” Thai alternative that nobody ends up using, and finally forget about it when people move on to the next crisis du jour.

 

Remember the uproar over Uber motorcycles? Or Uber cars for that matter? Thailand banned them, launched something Thai that was “better” and then left it to rot in peace.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/opinion/2016/08/10/thainess-means-gotta-banem/

 

-- Khaosod English 2016-08-11

They can ban some of the boring stuff but banning Pokemon completely might bring the uni students onto the streets.  They should try banning Facebook or Line and see what happens, revolution no doubt.

don't like/trust white man magic 

 

Thailand is known for starting projects and a big bang only to quickie end up in the

' too hard ' basket, follow-through on projects and good ideas are virtually non existent

in this country, they have the attention's life span is of a few months old baby when he sees

new toy...... however, they're very big on rules, they have millions of them, some dating

back to the stone age, very few however, are enforced properly.....

the hub of bans

e cigs

Pokemon is Japanese - "... ban it as yet another Western evil "

 

Dumb journalism

9 minutes ago, Loaded said:

Pokemon is Japanese - "... ban it as yet another Western evil "

 

Dumb journalism

I thought pokemon go was an american company's innovation?

Anything new invented since Sakdina is evil, off back to your bamboo huts with the peasants.

Thailand seems to take everything western and tries to Thai it up, no matter what the final outcome. 

 

Don't really see that in the west, where they just seem enjoy whatever makes life more fun and don't really care where it originated. 

33 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

I thought pokemon go was an american company's innovation?

 

yup it is

 

developed by Niantic, Inc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.

 

44 minutes ago, Loaded said:

Pokemon is Japanese - "... ban it as yet another Western evil "

 

Dumb journalism

 

Dumb posting?

15 minutes ago, LannaGuy said:

 

yup it is

 

developed by Niantic, Inc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.

 

 

The game play part is by US company - but they license the cartoon Pokemon from Nintendo and the Japanese creator.

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

 

Thailand is known for starting projects and a big bang only to quickie end up in the

' too hard ' basket, follow-through on projects and good ideas are virtually non existent

in this country, they have the attention's life span is of a few months old baby when he sees

new toy...... however, they're very big on rules, they have millions of them, some dating

back to the stone age, very few however, are enforced properly.....

 

Shrewd insight. It's an IQ/education thing.

 

Ooh, the soaps are on the telly, gotta go... might see someone dressed up to look like a stupid zombie *sigh*.

 

Winnie

55 minutes ago, jaltsc said:

Thailand seems to take everything western and tries to Thai it up, no matter what the final outcome. 

 

Don't really see that in the west, where they just seem enjoy whatever makes life more fun and don't really care where it originated. 

 

For most Thais there is nothing outside of Thailand. Just a void. There be dragons.

 

Winnie

11 minutes ago, mike324 said:

 

The game play part is by US company - but they license the cartoon Pokemon from Nintendo and the Japanese creator.

 

the developer of Pokemon Go! is American but, yes, they license from Nintendo but this game, the one we are talking about, is from the US

15 minutes ago, LannaGuy said:

 

the developer of Pokemon Go! is American but, yes, they license from Nintendo but this game, the one we are talking about, is from the US

 

Hmmm. Ronald Reagan, Goerge W Bush, Barak Obama and Donald Trump are/were from the US too as I recall.

 

Not very encouraging. It seems the US does brain-dead pretty well so Pokemon Go should be a roaring success, and (naturally) Thais will be one of their biggest and most enthusiastic markets..

 

Winnie

6 minutes ago, LannaGuy said:

 

the developer of Pokemon Go! is American but, yes, they license from Nintendo but this game, the one we are talking about, is from the US

 

Actually the original game play idea was from Japan, developed by Nintendo CEO Satoru (passed away last year). He was a fan of another game called Ingress developed by Niantic which is the first and original game using real life augmented reality, collecting stuff. It was an April Fool's joke back in 2014 when they collaborated with Google on the joke for Pokemon Go. They turn it into a game because they saw the amount of attention it garnered. So all in all, I would say Nintendo played a bigger part in the development of the game still, as they were the original creators of Pokemon game play and they were the ones who thought about the Pokemon Go idea. They collaborated with Niantic to use their augmented reality to bring the game to life. But the game is released by Niantic, so consider as "from" the US.

12 minutes ago, mike324 said:

 

Actually the original game play idea was from Japan, developed by Nintendo CEO Satoru (passed away last year). He was a fan of another game called Ingress developed by Niantic which is the first and original game using real life augmented reality, collecting stuff. It was an April Fool's joke back in 2014 when they collaborated with Google on the joke for Pokemon Go. They turn it into a game because they saw the amount of attention it garnered. So all in all, I would say Nintendo played a bigger part in the development of the game still, as they were the original creators of Pokemon game play and they were the ones who thought about the Pokemon Go idea. They collaborated with Niantic to use their augmented reality to bring the game to life. But the game is released by Niantic, so consider as "from" the US.

In addition nintendo shares took a hit when it was revealed they will not receive the bulk of the profits from pokemon go...they go to it's american creators. 

 

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83772.html

2 hours ago, Lamkyong said:

e cigs

 

These are banned but I see Thais smoking them occasionally.

 

Banning all potential political competiters, would be devastating:

 

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/ShawnMerrow/anime/pokemon.jpg

 

well, it IS a yellow shirt

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thai officials absolutely do have not the faintest idea, how the internet works!

Once things are "out there" you can ban all you want! 

7 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

In addition nintendo shares took a hit when it was revealed they will not receive the bulk of the profits from pokemon go...they go to it's american creators. 

 

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83772.html

 

Yup they don't get much since they only own 30% of Pokemon Company. Given how big the company is and decline in game / console sales, the Pokemon Go won't make too much of a different on their profits.

 

Looks like Apple gets 30% of the sales from the app store purchases directly, rest goes to Google, then trickles down to Niantic.

3 hours ago, Lamkyong said:

don't like/trust white man magic 

 

like white man money though 

there is no one size fit  all solution to anything.

 

if an idea or project is "imported", surely it must be modified to local circumstances, rather than a total No No.many countries adapt and benefit from others' experience.

3 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Anything new invented since Sakdina is evil, off back to your bamboo huts with the peasants.

The problem is if the peasants come into contact with to much modern stuff they will not be satisfied with bamboo huts.

The elites will be called on to share the wealth, a terrible thought.

sounds a lot like what France is doing

No surprise here. Ask the average Thai to name three things which were not invented in Thailand...

....'fishing' 'journalism'...

 

...are you asking us...or telling us....

 

...and .....what...exactly....

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

 

Thailand is known for starting projects and a big bang only to quickie end up in the

' too hard ' basket, follow-through on projects and good ideas are virtually non existent

in this country, they have the attention's life span is of a few months old baby when he sees

new toy...... however, they're very big on rules, they have millions of them, some dating

back to the stone age, very few however, are enforced properly.....

They can be dusted off fast and used. The Bridge club fiasco is a good example.