Finns det något som hindrar nuvarande regering att lätta på detta?
Varför lägger man till ytterligare web sites?
varför inför man censur på siter (RIM, Twitter och Facebook) som inte fanns tidigare?
Svara nu på det för du har undvikit detta i flera veckor.
Det är fegt, oärligt och ohederligt.
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jag kollade, som du föreslog, HRW.
Här är utdrag ur deras rapport för 2012
Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Media
From 2008 to 2011 the Abhisit government oversaw the closure of more than 1,000 websites, a satellite television station, online television channels, printed publications, and more than 40 community radio stations for allegedly threatening national security or broadcasting material deemed offensive to the monarchy.
Thai authorities continue to use the Computer Crimes Act and article 112 of the penal code, lese majeste (insulting the monarchy), to enforce censorship and persecute dissidents. The National Human Rights Commission estimates that more than 400 lese majeste cases were sent to trial in 2010 and 2011. Persons charged with lese majeste offenses are frequently denied bail and remain in prison for months awaiting trial. In most cases, the trials are closed to the public. In March a court sentenced Tanthawut Taweewarodomkul to 13 years in prison for posting material on the anti-monarchy website Nor Por Chor USA. Lese majeste prosecutions in 2011 also targeted webmasters and editors, such as Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster and director ofPrachatai.com, and Somyos Pruksakasemsuk, editor of Red Power magazine.
New Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung told parliament on August 26 that lese majeste offenses would not be tolerated. The government established a “war room” at national police headquarters to monitor the internet and lead the crackdown on websites deemed critical of the monarchy. On September 1, police arrested Surapak Phuchaisaeng in Bangkok for allegedly posting pictures, audio clips, and messages deemed insulting to the royal family on Facebook. It was the first lese majeste arrest under Yingluck’s government.
Critics of Yingluck and the Pheu Thai Party, such as Jermsak Pinthong and T-News group, lost contracts with the government-controlled National Broadcasting Services of Thailand (NBT) to produce television and radio news analysis programs broadcast nationally.
det finns massor av annat intressant att läsa där. http://www.hrw.org/w...t-2012-Thailand
Läs den...jag tror inte att du gjort det.
Hej
Jag har naturligtvis läst vad både HRW, Amnesty och Freedoom house har haft att säga om dem ökande censuren, blockandet av web sidor, stängning av radio och TV kanaler efter kuppen och med Abhisit som PM och det är ingen rolig läsning, och det är inte heller några nyheter för dig eller någon annan, detta ämne har varit uppe många gånger efter kuppen i flera olika trådar och vi har haft långa diskussioner om detta med ett otal länkar i ämnet som har lagts in av medlemmar i olika trådar, även internationellt har detta uppmärksammats och kritiserats av organisationer och medier jorden runt.
[size=3] [size=4]Här är lite ifrån http://www.hrw.org/node/98399/section/11 där uppger man siffran för blockade Web sidor till till 231 610 st den 8 november 2010, jag letade lite som hastigast på HRW,s hemsida så det kan tänkas att den slutgiltiga siffran blev ändå högre[/size] [/size]
Prachatai director Chiranuch Premchaiporn recalled how her website survived the repression of the Thaksin era and the military government, only to be closed by Abhisit’s government:
Prachatai had survived political turbulence, acting as an open platform for information and opinions from all sides. Since the time of Thaksin, those in authority, as well as various political groups, had not always been happy with what we stand for. But they somehow tolerated us. Even when the military staged a coup in 2006, Prachatai could remain open. This is the first time that the government shut us down. We have not received any formal orders. Suddenly, the website can no longer be accessed anymore. It seems that the government has blocked Prachatai at the server level, making it impossible to gain access to the website even when you use proxy software. I think censorship is arbitrary, aiming to block information from the Red Shirts or any sources that the government sees as being supportive of the Red Shirts. Perhaps the government only wants one-sided information to be available to the public
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Thai authorities have not made public the exact number and details of the banned websites, nor given their owners and administrators reasons for the censorship. Until its dissolution in December 2010, the CRES continued to order an increasing amount of internet content blocked—including information on YouTube, Facebook, and Hi5—without court order, as normally required under Thailand’s Computer-Related Crimes Act. Many of the banned social network pages belonged to UDD members and sympathizers, or contained information that alleged the government and the military were committing human rights violations against the UDD or were critical of the monarchy. The Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) reported on November 8, 2010, that Thai authorities had blocked 231,610 web pages (URL) since enforcement of the Emergency Decree.
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[size=5]Här följer lite exempel på vad som blockades och hur snabb ökningen var efter kuppen ifrån http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Crime_Act[/size]
URLs blocked by court order:[size=2][12][/size]
Year Court
Orders Blocked
URLs 2007 1 2 2008 13 2071 2009 64 28,705 2010 39 43,908 Total 117 74,686
It is estimated that tens of thousands of additional URLs are blocked without court orders through informal requests or under the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations.
Reasons for blocking:[size=2][12][/size] URLs
blocked
Percent
Reason 57,330 77% lèse majesté content (content that defames, insults, threatens, or is unflattering to the King, includes national security and some political issues) 16,740 22% pornographic content 357 <1% information about abortion 246 <1% content related to gambling
Estimates put the number of websites blocked at over 110,000 and growing in 2010.[size=2][13[/size]
[size=5]Examples of websites blocked [/size]
[edit] 19 September Network against Coup d'Etat
A trend is increased censorship of anti-coup websites such as 19 September Network against Coup d'Etat, which has been blocked six times as of February 2007, with the government refusing to acknowledge responsibility for the blocking.
[edit] Southern insurgency
Most sites concerning the violent political situation in Thailand's Muslim South are blocked, specifically those in support of the Patani United Liberation Organisation (PULO), a banned group which works for a separate Muslim state, including PULO's appeals to the United Nations for redress.
[edit] External news sites
Some web pages from BBC One, BBC Two, CNN, Yahoo! News, the Post-Intelligencer newspaper (Seattle, USA), and The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Australia) dealing with Thai political content are blocked. More recently, all international coverage of Thaksin-in-exile has been blocked, including interviews with the deposed PM.
[edit] Webboards and discussion forums
Internet webboards and discussion forums such as Midnight University,[size=2][17][/size] Prachatai.com[size=2][18][/size] and Pantip.com have all been blocked, making reasonable political discussion very difficult. Prachatai and Pantip have chosen to self-censor, closely monitoring each discussion, in order to remain unblocked.
[edit] Video sharing sites
Video sharing sites such as Camfrog have recently been blocked on the grounds that people were "behaving indecently" on webcams; the block was later reversed when it was discovered that Camfrog provided a principal means of communication for the handicapped, elderly and shut-ins. Other video sharing sites such as Metacafe remain blocked however.
The entire video upload website, YouTube, has been blocked several times, including a complete ban between 4 April and 31 August 2007 due to a video which was considered to be offensive to the monarchy; YouTube's parent company, Google, was reported to have agreed to assist MICT in blocking individual videos, thus making the rest legal to display in Thailand. The YouTube site block persisted for nearly five months, despite the fact that the video challenged by MICT was voluntary deleted by the user who posted it.[size=2][19][/size]
[edit] Websites containing lèse majesté content
The Criminal Code states that whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, Queen, the heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be jailed for three to 15 years, but the statute is broadly interpreted to apply to any mention of the institution of royalty that is less than flattering.
On 29 April 2010, Wipas Raksakulthai was arrested following a post to his Facebook account allegedly insulting Bhumibol.[size=2][20][/size] The arrest was reportedly the first lèse majesté charge against a Thai Facebook user.[size=2][21][/size] In response, Amnesty International named Wipas Thailand's first prisoner of conscience in nearly three decades.[size=2][22][/size]
According to the Associated Press, the Computer Crime Act has contributed to a sharp increase in the number of lèse majesté cases tried each year in Thailand.[size=2][23][/size] While between 1990 and 2005, roughly five cases were tried in Thai courts each year, since that time about 400 cases have come to trial—a 1,500 percent increase.[size=2][23][/size]
[edit] Websites about the book The King Never Smiles
Although the independent biography of Thailand's King Bhumibhol Adulyadej, The King Never Smiles[size=2][24][/size] by Paul Handley was published in July 2006, websites concerning the book had been blocked as far back as November 2005. As no advance reading copies or excerpts were made available, these sites were censored based on the book's title alone. All sites with links to sales of the book are still blocked, including Yale University Press, Amazon, Amazon UK, and many others.[size=2][25][/size]
[edit] Wikipedia articles
- Accessing the Wikipedia article on Bhumibol Adulyadej from Thailand on 10 October 2008, led to a w3.mict.go.th announcement: "Under Construction The site you are trying to view does not currently have a default page. It may be in the process of being upgraded and configured." The link is now redirected to:
The page was prohibited because of the court order. It could have an effect on or be against the security of the Kingdom, public order or good morals.
: ท่านไม่สามารถเข้าชม web page ที่ต้องการ เนืองจาก มีคำสั่งศาลให้ปิดกั้น หรือ มีลักษณะเข้าข่ายที่อาจกระทบต่อความมั่นคงแห่งราชอาณาจักร หรืออาจขัดต่อความสงบเรียบร้อยหรือศีลธรรมอันดีของประชาชน
—Super Broadband Network Co., Ltd., sbn.co.th/prohibit.html
- The blocking of the King of Thailand's Wikipedia page may be due to content regarding the king's succession that the Thai Government views unappealing or illegal under its lèse majesté laws. The fake error message seen in Thailand when attempting to view the king's Wikipedia page can be seen on YouTube.[size=2][26][/size]
[edit] WikiLeaks
On 28 June 2010, access to wikileaks.org was blocked in Thailand.[size=2][27][/size]
[edit] Wayback Machine Internet archive
Some pages from the Wayback Machine, a Archive.org project which as of 2011 stores snapshots of over 150 billion web pages,[size=2][28][/size] are being blocked by MICT.[size=2][29][/size]
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