Keeping abreast

It really gets on my tit ... {alert for fountainhall - irony intended here}

Google once had a company code of behaviour that included the mantra "Don't be evil". That of course became wholly redundant when Google started to do business on the Chinese mainland. Despite Facebook's supposed commitment to friendship and followers, they also will remove any content when a government complains it transgresses their laws. Today's newspapers carry stories about how Thai ISPs have approached Facebook to remove - or have banned from access within Thailand - three naughty members. The Bangkok Post then thoughtfully lists the names of the three people

Why anyone in Thailand who cares about keeping abreast doesn't use a VPN almost by default beats me. The Opera software folks even provide a free VPN App you can download for your iPhone or Android phone. If you're physically present within Thailand you have to abide by their laws - as did the Foreign Correspondents club meeting the other day, filmed nevertheless by the police. They wanted to discuss The Strange Case of the Plaque Commemorating the 1932 Democratic Revolution Against the Absolute Monarchy. It went missing, coincidentally when all of the CCTV cameras in the area were disabled for "servicing". As a public plaque has no owner, the police claim that they are unable to investigate its theft. Seriously. That failure of will has nothing, you will understand, that those who removed it replaced with a plaque lauding the achievements of the Chakri dynasty. A complete coincidence

@frequent.

What the heck are you trying to say? I have read your article three times and it appears there are several;/many different subjects, all unrelated to one another.

Please re-write & re-submit so us illiterates can understand the point(s) you are trying to make.

I did not understand any of it..

Oii Freaky. Good stuff. Actually it's an excellent piece. Well researched with evidence, accurate and a warning of what's to come. The content is academic but the style is tabloidesque.

If you follow and understand recent Thai history regarding the dictatorship then everything makes sense. The bottom line is anytime one group of people tries to squelch free thought it inevitably backfires. Get a VPN.

I always wear a condom when online - where do I stand?

Why to the Ops rear of course SG