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Government to demand takedown of sex-trade spoof

The government plans to ask YouTube to remove a video poking fun at the Thai sex industry.

The 90-second spoof on Rosetta Stone language software joked that buyers could learn useful phrases in Thai - but the Culture Minister was not laughing.

The clip is a parody of a commercial for the Rosetta Stone language learning software.

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  • kasper

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    Discussion 37 : 04 Feb 2013 at 14.3137

    @robins, d9.

    "Funny how the PTP shows its true buffoonery and lack of respect for individuals rights in such comical ways. One would think these are educated people"

    Why would one think that PTP consists of educated people? The main criteria for membership are to wear a red shirt or red tie, to be a police officer, to be a family member and/or good friend of Thaksin, to have a criminal record or at least be known to be corrupt (so you are less likely to rat out the other members). Education is not a requirement, in fact it seems education is discouraged!

  • geoffo

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    Discussion 36 : 04 Feb 2013 at 14.2836

    Funny but got to admit it is a touchy subject. The solution lies with the Thais themselves.

  • Birdie

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    Discussion 35 : 04 Feb 2013 at 14.1335

    I think cleaning the whole of this government's corruptive image is more important than anything else that Thailand needs. Who can deny the fact that without an incapable government, how could Thailand's sex industry be so thriving? Thanks to the politicians down to the police for having this deeply entrenched world class image.

  • NorDevil

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    Discussion 34 : 04 Feb 2013 at 14.1334

    Typical Thai thinking.Do nothing about the cause of this videoclip and blame it all on YouTube and SNL.Guess there are way too many Policeofficers and politicians getting bribes from the bars and sexworkers.Unless you are both blind and dumb you have to know what is going on.Soi Cowboy,Nana Plaze,Pat Pong just here in Bangkok and much of Pattaya and Phuket is more than enough proof.The one thing that is pointless is farang having to learn Thai words when just about every single Thai person i those places knows how to get customers in several languages.
    Prostitution is illigal here so what does that tell us about the Thai Police ?

  • jacksprat

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    Discussion 33 : 04 Feb 2013 at 14.1133

    @discussion 15 - I suggest you read the late Jorges Orgibet's writings about the Bangkok nightlife when he arrived here at the end of 1945. It was thriving back then, long before the US GIs ever set foot in the country. Or read the late Jack Reynolds' "Woman of Bangkok", set in the Bangkok nightlife in the 1950s. The United States of America is not to blame for all that you do not like about the Land of Smiles. I think the 100,000 or so troops stationed here by Thailand's ally Japan during World War II might have had something to do with the nightlife too.

  • cadcolin

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    Discussion 32 : 04 Feb 2013 at 14.0732

    As evebody knows but wont say lots of money is made in the none goverment approved tourists sector

    and as everybody knows lots of cash money means nothing going to done about this

  • pointman-1

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    Discussion 31 : 04 Feb 2013 at 14.0031

    Disc 19, phaethon: Accusing the United States, for establishing a "sex-industry" in Thailand, is completely absurd. However, I agree with the Thai-Government about Youtube. I'm wondering, did the sex-industry go out of business or get smaller, after United States Forces departed Thailand? I don't think so.

  • Dik

    Discussion 30 : 04 Feb 2013 at 13.5730

    555555!!! As a "falang" living in Thailand, the spoof was an average attempt to laugh at the way it is here...
    It should have added phrases Thais can learn in English instead of: Helloooo, welcome I looveyou...
    from iPhone application.

  • orange

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    Discussion 29 : 04 Feb 2013 at 13.5729

    NangrongJ Discussion 15

    I agree there’s a lot to be said about American aggression and the impact it has on countries where troops are based. They like to feel at home and have an appetite for more than just Burgers. Call it a sad reflection, not something they laugh at. Yet the joke is on them for making a mockery so to hide their own infectious, aggressive, shallow and cultureless image, the world over.

  • jacksprat

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    Discussion 28 : 04 Feb 2013 at 13.5628

    I fully agree with the government. One should not mock the sex industry in Thailand. Some things are above reproach.

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