List of 300,000 Internet users submitted to NLA to reconsider computer crime bill

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List of 300,000 Internet users submitted to NLA to reconsider computer crime bill
By Kasamakorn Chanwanpen 
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Thai Netizen Network and Amnesty International Thursday lodged a petition endorsed also by 300,000 Internet users with the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to reconsider the amendment of the computer crimes law allegedly posing threats to human rights.  

 

The rights groups said stipulations infringing on human rights, freedom of expression, and privacy still persisted in the latest amendment passed the NLA in its second reading last Friday.

 

Though there had been changes in the the wording, Thai Netizen Network leader Sarinee Achavanuntakul said that the essence of the law, for instance, in Article 14 remained a threat to freedom of expression.

 

For its vagueness, the activist alleged that the article would be used against people attempting to scrutinize authorities. Many had been sued for defamation with the Article 14 of the current computer crime act and thus were prevented from acting further in their issues of concern, Sarinee said.

 

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[ChrisY1]

They could have 1 mill. protestors and nothing would change....the small mindsets will prevail......

[harada]

And the list will go to the nearest shredder. 

[worgeordie]

we're only a pawn in their game.

regards worgeordie

[Get Real]

Just better to not sign so much irrelevant shit on Internet all the time. Actually need a law taking care of all the BS, that is in all social media. Maybe it even will get some people out of their stupid phone clicking day out and day in, so they all can do something that is more in contact with reality. Like a real social life instead.

[digibum]

52 minutes ago, harada said:

And the list will go to the nearest shredder. 

 

And the list will go right into their database of people to pay close attention to.  

 

[digibum]

5 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Just better to not sign so much irrelevant shit on Internet all the time. Actually need a law taking care of all the BS, that is in all social media. Maybe it even will get some people out of their stupid phone clicking day out and day in, so they all can do something that is more in contact with reality. Like a real social life instead.

 

Says a guy posting on an internet forum, you know, where people are really listened to.  

[Get Real]

1 minute ago, digibum said:

 

Says a guy posting on an internet forum, you know, where people are really listened to.  

Maybe you know the difference between 30 min up to total 1,5 h per day compared to 6-8 h every day. If not it´s just gone too far for you too. However, thanks for your incredible input. I will take it to me and really consider it.

[baboon]

I suppose the 'No' camp - which is pretty much everybody, let's be honest - can take a measure of comfort in so far as it is a monumentally difficult task to carry out.

Well it must be, because instead of all this talk the public would have already woken up one morning to a fait accompli, which as you all might remember was the original plan until that memo was leaked (and the denials began).

[NCC1701A]

Headline tomorrow:

"Thailand to build new prisons to hold 300,000 new inmates."

[yellowboat]

2 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

They could have 1 mill. protestors and nothing would change....the small mindsets will prevail......

Don't we be so sure.  The junta has lost face with Buddhist Monks just this week.  This protest is a healthy, much needed effort in today's Thailand.  Hope they get 10 million more signatures. 

[IAMHERE]

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

Headline tomorrow:

"Thailand to build new prisons to hold 300,000 new inmates."

gonna do virtual time

[Emster23]

Did I miss them enlisting our help? Our names would probably be counted as negatives, come to think of it....

[Brer Fox]

Surely people should be starting to realise by now that it is only the military that has rights. Everyone else can go jump. Petitions are a waste of time. They are better off complaining to that worthless organisation and gravy train, the UN Commission on Human Rights.

[elgordo38]

2 hours ago, yellowboat said:

Hope they get 10 million more signatures. 

Makes no never mind. They only work with their fuzzy logic not facts. Its just a cruder version of what the Donald uses sue sue sue till your opponent is swapped/overpowered in lawsuits. He has 2 suits pending that he must give a deposition about before become president. Its either power or money that carry the day.

[F4UCorsair]

The sentence will be that they are blocked from using social media for a year.  They'll be wishing it had been the death penalty!

[digibum]

10 hours ago, Get Real said:

Maybe you know the difference between 30 min up to total 1,5 h per day compared to 6-8 h every day. If not it´s just gone too far for you too. However, thanks for your incredible input. I will take it to me and really consider it.

 

Yes, thank you, I am familiar with the concept of time.  What you don't seem to be familiar with is the concept of irony whereby someone complains about the time people waste complaining online by complaining online.  

[Get Real]

7 hours ago, digibum said:

 

Yes, thank you, I am familiar with the concept of time.  What you don't seem to be familiar with is the concept of irony whereby someone complains about the time people waste complaining online by complaining online.  

Opps! Now your in deep water. Where did you see the complaint. The first one was a vision of a beautiful future, and the second one was an explaination just for you. Who didn´t understand this time?

However it´s not easy to really understand what is happening in the virtual world. Just so much you can´t touch and many things that just creates confusion. Like the 300 000 people on the list. Just a little bit confused over why they can´t write what they think without thinking about if it´s right or wrong. In normal law in the real world we have something called slander, defamation and threath. This law makes Internet have that too. Just hope that more people can relate to that. (That was also an explaination and a wish. Not a complaint, and I would be very happy if it can be seen as that.)

[NongKhaiKid]

19 hours ago, harada said:

And the list will go to the nearest shredder. 

After being carefully scrutinized and some notes made ?

[debate101]

Nice try, but even 70 million signatures wouldn't do it. That's the beauty of the ship that cannot be named. The captain decides which direction it goes.

 

It would be more fruitful to put those energies into finding a way to get a government that won't try to pass bills like this, but I suppose many of these signatures are from the self-absorbed urban classes that couldn't care less about the rights of others as long as their own lives remain relatively unaffected.