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  • BUSINESS

    Thailand's internet censorship rates 6/10

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 17/01/2020

    » Thailand has received a score of 6 out of 10 in internet censorship, on a par with various regional peers, according to UK-based tech research firm Comparitech.

  • OPINION

    Censorship a futile tactic

    News, Editorial, Published on 20/10/2020

    » The embattled Prayut Chan-o-cha government seems set to ignore calls by several sectors of society to compromise and hold out the olive branch of a seat at the negotiating table for the young protest leaders. Instead, it looks increasingly prepared to up the ante by censoring the news reports of media outlets sympathetic to the cause of the pro-democracy movement.

  • THAILAND

    Covid news gurus deny censorship role

    News, Published on 22/08/2021

    » The government is ramping up efforts to tackle fake news and disinformation by setting up a special media team with communications experts Seri Wongmontha and Kasemsan Veerakul serving as "executive editors".

  • OPINION

    How to 'fix' social media without using censorship

    News, Published on 22/06/2018

    » The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal may have changed the way millions of people perceive the risks to privacy when they go online. But it could have obscured an equally profound digital age debate: widespread resistance to internet companies' role as the global speech police of the digital age. The future of free speech depends on getting this debate right.

  • THAILAND

    Cops mull charges against viral rap stars

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/10/2018

    » The Royal Thai Police's Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) will conclude within a few days whether an explosively popular rap song perceived to take aim at the military government breaches the Computer Crime Act, the deputy spokesman of the agency said yesterday.

  • OPINION

    Students wronged

    News, Postbag, Published on 22/09/2020

    » Re: "Point taken, but no", (PostBag, Sept 21).

  • OPINION

    Abetting persecution

    News, Postbag, Published on 08/01/2019

    » Under military rule, Thailand has become cruel and heartless -- repeatedly colluding with repressive foreign governments to intercept asylum seekers and send them back to face life-threatening dangers.

  • LIFE

    Bloody artists

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 07/11/2018

    » Hung on the walls of Sukhumvit 43's Galerie Oasis are oil paintings oozing with grief, melancholy and pain. There's a figure of a woman crucified on a giant cross with blood streaming out of her hands and genitalia; an angel with empty eye-sockets holding his bloody eyes in his hands; and Buddha standing on a bloody lotus with a skull instead of his usual serene face.

  • THAILAND

    EC to check social media posts

    News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 20/12/2018

    » The Election Commission (EC) yesterday welcomed a proposal for the poll agency to monitor use of social media platforms during the election campaign and curb misleading or false information in a timely fashion.

  • THAILAND

    'Foul is fair': Shakespeare ban is lifted

    News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 21/02/2024

    » The Supreme Administrative Court ended an 11-year ban on domestic screenings of the controversial movie Shakespeare Tong Tai (Shakespeare Must Die) on Tuesday.

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