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Live it or Leave it
Harrison George
2013-05-18 12:06
 

Right, I’ve had enough. I’m sick up to here with this mindless ‘if you don’t like it here, then go and live somewhere else’ garbage.

So what about you? If you don’t like reading this stuff, why don’t you go and live somewhere else where they don’t write like this? Never thought of that, did you, eh?

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Over the Top
Harrison George
2013-05-12 11:59
 

Dear me, I can hardly keep up.  A Prime Minister talks about democracy in something more than platitudes, and in front of foreigners.  And comes home to a chorus of boos from those whose recent contributions to democracy have included coups, live fire zones, and mass censorship of the internet.  How dare she mention the word ‘democracy’ 27 times in a speech at a forum on democracy!

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Are we living in an invisible prison?
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation
2010-12-30 15:08
 

There are times when some incidents in Thailand remind this writer of another society in a land far away. This was the case when virtually every mainstream mass media ignored certain "wires" about Thailand that were carried in WikiLeaks.

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Prachatai calls on public to demand right to information
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation
2010-12-23 13:33
 

The public must demand that the government free all websites blocked under the emergency decree, which ended yesterday, in order to defend their right to access information, media executive Chuwat Rerksrisuk said yesterday.

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Burmese media combating censorship
Reporters Without Borders
2010-12-23 09:42
 

Despite many difficulties, Burmese journalists inside Burma and abroad have in recent weeks covered two events of great importance for the country: the 7 November general elections and Aung San Suu Kyi’s release six days later. The military authorities sent contradictory signals about their intentions as regards media freedom. The undemocratic elections were marked by censorship, arrests of journalists and other obstacles, but Burmese newspapers were able to interview the various candidates during the campaign.

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Chinese dissident journalist detained in Bangkok despite UNHCR protection
Reporters Without Borders
2010-12-23 08:22
 

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai authorities to release Sun Shucai, an 87-year-old refugee activist and journalist who was arrested in Bangkok on 8 December. He is now in a Bangkok immigration detention centre after a judge fined him 3,000 Baht (75 euros) on 9 December and ordered the authorities to examine the possibility of deporting him.

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Online petition to support WikiLeaks
2010-12-23 08:08
 

Academics, journalists and activists including Daniel Ellsberg, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky have signed on an online petition in support of the WikiLeaks.

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Cyber Scout training
2010-12-17 05:31
 

The Ministry of Justice is inviting people to join its ‘Cyber Scout’ training programme in order to build a network of volunteers to protect the monarchy in the online world.

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Thai government urged to respect netizens' rights
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2010-12-15 14:47
 

Internet activists in Thailand criticized the government for infringing on the rights of online users and called for amending the controversial Computer Crime Act.

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Situational Overview on the Control and Censorship of Online Media (2007-2010)
iLaw
2010-12-12 12:02
 

Since the enforcement of the Computer Crime Act in July 2007, there have been 185 cases in relations to the CCA up to July 2010. There have been 117 court orders to block access to 74,686 URLs.

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