Actually I was surprised to see how many small Internet cafés are springing up in Thailand; even in Nong Ki where we stay in Issan there are two now and that is a very small rural town. My partner’s young son is starting to learn computing at his school up there now and I think it’s only going to be a matter of a time before the Internet becomes more prominent in Thailand.
I agree most youngsters won’t do anything useful with it, but that is probably true of a large percentage of the world’s users, young and old alike.
I think with the Internet the authorities will shoot themselves in the foot trying to censor it as it is just a too big a task to do effectively with something that evolves so fast.
Short sighted
Another way to suppress people is scare them, you can get jailed up to 20 years just by using your computer, which I have to do more than 10 hours a day!
Here is an excerpt from: http://facthai.wordpress.com/2007/05/31 ... -internet/
Two weeks ago, Thailand’s military-appointed assembly ratified a new cybercrime law by a vote of 119-1. This was, in fact, the first law passed by the coup governmentt. All its ‘crimes’ were already adequately enforced by existing Thai law. The law’s early drafts included the death penalty and life imprisonment but these were dropped to “onlyâ€
Here is an excerpt from: http://facthai.wordpress.com/2007/05/31 ... -internet/
Two weeks ago, Thailand’s military-appointed assembly ratified a new cybercrime law by a vote of 119-1. This was, in fact, the first law passed by the coup governmentt. All its ‘crimes’ were already adequately enforced by existing Thai law. The law’s early drafts included the death penalty and life imprisonment but these were dropped to “onlyâ€
Say mai penrai live longer!
