ICT to lay down law on Twitter accounts

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ICT to lay down law on Twitter accounts

Published: 30/01/2012 at 01:53 PM
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The Information and Communication Technology Ministry will work with Twitter to ensure that tweets disseminated in Thailand are in compliance with local law.

One of the first tweets from Thailand after the Twitter announcement that it could censor users country-by-country.

ICT permanent secretary Jeerawan Boonperm said Twitter's move to censor or block content regarded as offensive in particular countries was a "welcome development".

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hillfarang
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Discussion 15 : 30/01/2012 at 06:07 PM15
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REALITY:

Twitter has already disseminated (in an interview widely available) information about setting changes that will allow one to get around this. P.S. I do not & never have had a Twitter, facebook or youtube exposure. They're dangerous...
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Discussion 14 : 30/01/2012 at 05:41 PM14
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We wouldn't want the people to start ... thinking now, would we.

That leads to evil things like knowledge, justice, respect and other nonsense that the peasants don't need.

So much better for them to protect them under the warm, cloaking veil of blissful ignorance that always and in every case is the result of censorship, so that every opinion on every censored topic is safely and innocuously worthless.

What I can't understand is why people want the government to guarantee that their opinions on some topic are worthless and ignorant, and then pretend to care about the same topic! Such irrationality boggles the mind.
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Discussion 13 : 30/01/2012 at 02:56 PM13
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Any Twitter message about the royal institution should be ban to avoid abuse. ICT should install special software to to block certain key word from being transmitted. Like "King" "Royal", etc.
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JP

Discussion 12 : 30/01/2012 at 02:22 PM12
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.
George Orwell
'The thought police would get him just the same'.
George Orwell
'The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
George Orwell
from iPhone application.
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Discussion 11 : 30/01/2012 at 02:08 PM11
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FYI, the previous Dem government blocked all Twitter AND Facebook accounts of the entire political opposition. The coup government blocked all of Youtube. I kid you not. Although I disapprove of this current censorship as well, compared to the previous regime it's a huge step forward. Twitter promised to publish block requests, so go start reading what you aren't supposed to know.
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Discussion 10 : 30/01/2012 at 01:19 PM10
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Clearly, a step backwards for Thailand...

... and VERY unpopular with all posts opposing this action.
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Renaissance
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Discussion 9 : 30/01/2012 at 12:42 PM9
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Since the Big Boss is behind this, we can see where it is going. Censorship will start off slowly under the smokescreen of lese majeste, then it will be extended to political criticism. Then the newspapers will have to block negative comments about the government. The Red Shirt Federation will be extended so that the rural people know what the truth is. But the majority of Thais have voted for wanting this ... and the massive corruption. Truly Amazing Thailand!
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Discussion 8 : 30/01/2012 at 10:54 AM8
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What des this mean?

No more of these Tweets:

- Iran: 2 gay men hanged in public square
- Afghanistan: woman beheaded in football stadium accused by husband of adultery without proof
- India: 20 year old wife has acid thrown in face for refusing to marry 65 year old man
- Iraq: US soldiers torture prisoners
- China: 20 dissidents jailed for 15 years each for preaching freedom of expression
- Russia: Mafia kills two more journalists in broad daylight
- Thailand: effigies of Nitarat group members burned by Democrat party spokesperson group

you judge a man by the company he keeps
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Discussion 7 : 30/01/2012 at 10:19 AM7
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George Orwell would be so proud!
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Discussion 6 : 30/01/2012 at 10:17 AM6
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Thailand internet 2.0 because we are too dumb to know for ourselves .
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