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Censorship versus security
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 18/08/2010
» Freedom of speech, abuse of power by the government, and the new norms of a democratic society empowered by the Internet were all topics discussed by a wide variety of speakers at a seminar on the third anniversary of the Computer Misuse Act, often known as the Cybercrime law, hosted by the Thai Netizen Network, Media 4 Democracy and the Southeast Asia Press Alliance.
Looking beyond the letter of the law
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 04/08/2010
» Censorship is something that most of us detest but many more conservative factions seem to feel is a necessary part of modern civil society. The slippery slope, as they call it, starts from an almost universal acceptance of censorship of child pornography to hardcore pornography and so on and so forth, until in a hundred iterations later in some societies, seeing a single stray hair is construed as adultery and is punishable by building a wall to have it collapse on the woman involved.