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Zorro 69
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Thailand put on watch list for efforts to control web
AFP
Beijing - Governments in Asia are considered among the world's worst ''enemies'' of internet freedom, as they increasingly censor websites and jail people who express views deemed dangerous online.
In comments marking World Press Freedom Day, today, experts said several countries including China, Vietnam and Nepal are feeling more threatened by cyberspace than ever as internet use booms among their populations.
Of 15 ''enemies of the internet'' named by Paris-based rights group Reporters Without Borders late last year, five were in East or South Asia - China, North Korea, Vietnam, Burma and Nepal. The 10 ''countries to watch'' included Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.
Experts warn that, with less freedom of information, Asian societies risk seeing more corruption and abuse of government power, while public discontent will grow, leading to more social instability.
''They fear the internet will spread Western ideas of freedom and democracy which will lead to an overthrow of their power,'' said formerly imprisoned Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who won Unesco's Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom award in 1997.
Employing sophisticated filtering technology, forcing internet cafes to register users and internet service providers to reveal user information, the governments were trying to rein in a medium they realise they must also embrace to spur modernisation and economic growth.
In China, the world's biggest jailer of journalists, the number of cyber dissidents imprisoned has exceeded the number of reporters locked up.
Vietnam, which lacks China's money and technology, has employed internet police to filter out ''subversive'' content and spy on cybercafes.
Burma blocks not only foreign news sites but also web-based email services and forces internet cafes to monitor their computer users.
North Korea only allows a few thousand privileged people to have access to a heavily-censored version of the internet.
Asian countries on the watch list, despite being perceived as more modern and open, also displayed worrying signs of trying to control the internet, the group said.
For example, in Thailand, the government extended its fight against internet pornography to censoring online news sites as part of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's effort to rein in the media. Defamation suits that once targeted newspapers now hit writers who publish online, the Southeast Asian Press Alliance said.
- report Bangkok Post/AFP
General news >> Wednesday May 03, 2006
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:42 am on May 3, 2006
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fastmover
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Zorro 69.......
So where can I sign-up to join the
great army that will be formed to
fight these devils and give lasting
and complete freedom to all the
netizens of the world?
Hey do you know you're not allowed
to smoke in McDonalds, the Pope
can't elect his own Bishops in China,
and the oceans of the world are
in a catastrophic state because
nobody follows the rules?
Rules, reuglations, control?
There was pornography, revolution,
fear, abuse, censorship, corruption,
and war before the internet.
Take your hands of the keyboard.
Walk out the door and make it right.
Anger is not well served while basking
in the glow of a monitor screen.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 4:05 am on May 3, 2006
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from Zorro 69 on 3:34 pm on May 3, 2006
Experts warn that, with less freedom of information, Asian societies risk seeing more corruption and abuse of government power, while public discontent will grow, leading to more social instability.
How is that a bad thing?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:39 am on May 3, 2006
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fastmover
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 6:32 pm on May 3, 2006
How is that a bad thing?
Well you sure have the power to kill off a political discussion.
Seems we used to be able to whack away at some useless theory for at least several pages in the old days
eh Dicky Duck?
Sigh..........
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 10:38 pm on May 4, 2006
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Oz
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Ever noticed how the threads seem to often get locked after Daffy's last post or even just disappear?
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:53 pm on May 4, 2006
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DaffyDuck
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Wow! That is just plain WEIRD! Maybe we should send Hermanolobo to investigate such strange going's on? Or maybe SteadyEddie can write a story about it? Are you sure about such coincidental occurences?
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Posted on: 11:37 pm on May 4, 2006
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sentry
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a 'friend of mine' has told me he notices MANY more porn sites on the restricted list than before.
If you have a spare appx $8 a month, then you can use anonymous servers like findnot.com
Once you're online, you double click on another 'VPN' icon, it logs you on, and instantly its like your computer is in another country and your connection from the offshore computer to your PC is completely encrypted so even your ISP cannot see what you've downloaded, let alone the government. You get access to all the 'restricted' websites because as far as the internet is concerned, you are now the offshore computer..
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:22 am on May 5, 2006
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fastmover
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 12:30 pm on May 5, 2006
Wow! That is just plain WEIRD!
So, I take it Public Relations and putting a positive spin on things is not something you could look forward to as a career then?
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Sentry--How much porn do you think the average guy needs to make himself happy, content, satiated?
It's easy to complain about what you cannot access, but how much can you access. How much access do you need to get off. 10 sites-20-100 sites?
Your 'friend' says 'MANY more porn sites' are restricted. Does that mean your porn life suffers or you jerk off less?
Interesting court case. "Judge, censorship has denied me my contitutional right to jerk off." Court murmurs Oh Oh!
Hey guys, how many porn sites do you need to feel 'free'? 
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:28 am on May 5, 2006
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seajohn
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As my senses become ennured to what I've already seen and desensitized through overstimulation, I guess the answer is: more and more.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 6:50 am on May 7, 2006
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