“The problem in Thailand is that the government are so far behind in their cybersecurity capabilities that it will take some time to catch up,” the expert added.
“That means in the meanwhile, the government servers are basically an open book.”
It takes a long time to catch up from the 19th. Century.
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Pegasus Spyware Targeted Dozens Of Activists, Academics
A rapper, an actress. Thai academics, and pro-democracy protest leaders were among dozens whose phones were hacked with spyware likely linked to the government, cybersecurity researchers said Monday in releasing forensic findings about the first known use of such espionage technology in Thailand.
At least 30 people were targeted for surveillance with Pegasus spyware produced by Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, research groups said as they unveiled their findings in Bangkok. These groups are Citizen Lab, a Canada-based cyber-research organization, iLaw, a Thai digital and legal rights NGO, and Digital Reach, a Southeast Asian tech rights organization.
The phone hacks were revealed in November 2021, when Apple warned several Thai iPhone users that “state-sponsored attackers” may have targeted their devices, said Ruchapong Chamjirachaikul, advocacy officer at iLaw.
“This was the same time Apple filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against the NSO Group whose spyware Pegasus had been used to hack iPhones. So, this was the moment we found out how serious the situation was,” he said while releasing a report about his group’s findings at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT).
Soon after the revelation, the three organizations conducted a forensic investigation into the phones of those infected by the spyware, including people who had not been contacted by Apple.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/19072022- ... academics/
A rapper, an actress. Thai academics, and pro-democracy protest leaders were among dozens whose phones were hacked with spyware likely linked to the government, cybersecurity researchers said Monday in releasing forensic findings about the first known use of such espionage technology in Thailand.
At least 30 people were targeted for surveillance with Pegasus spyware produced by Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, research groups said as they unveiled their findings in Bangkok. These groups are Citizen Lab, a Canada-based cyber-research organization, iLaw, a Thai digital and legal rights NGO, and Digital Reach, a Southeast Asian tech rights organization.
The phone hacks were revealed in November 2021, when Apple warned several Thai iPhone users that “state-sponsored attackers” may have targeted their devices, said Ruchapong Chamjirachaikul, advocacy officer at iLaw.
“This was the same time Apple filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against the NSO Group whose spyware Pegasus had been used to hack iPhones. So, this was the moment we found out how serious the situation was,” he said while releasing a report about his group’s findings at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT).
Soon after the revelation, the three organizations conducted a forensic investigation into the phones of those infected by the spyware, including people who had not been contacted by Apple.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/19072022- ... academics/
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If you use a mobile phone and/or a computer, you have no privacy. The instant you turn on your phone, your location is known. That's not a problem, unless, someone thinks that you may have said or done something that warrants tracking. Mistakes can be made.buksida wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 9:01 am Pegasus Spyware Targeted Dozens Of Activists, Academics
A rapper, an actress. Thai academics, and pro-democracy protest leaders were among dozens whose phones were hacked with spyware likely linked to the government, cybersecurity researchers said Monday in releasing forensic findings about the first known use of such espionage technology in Thailand.
At least 30 people were targeted for surveillance with Pegasus spyware produced by Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, research groups said as they unveiled their findings in Bangkok. These groups are Citizen Lab, a Canada-based cyber-research organization, iLaw, a Thai digital and legal rights NGO, and Digital Reach, a Southeast Asian tech rights organization.
The phone hacks were revealed in November 2021, when Apple warned several Thai iPhone users that “state-sponsored attackers” may have targeted their devices, said Ruchapong Chamjirachaikul, advocacy officer at iLaw.
“This was the same time Apple filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against the NSO Group whose spyware Pegasus had been used to hack iPhones. So, this was the moment we found out how serious the situation was,” he said while releasing a report about his group’s findings at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT).
Soon after the revelation, the three organizations conducted a forensic investigation into the phones of those infected by the spyware, including people who had not been contacted by Apple.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/19072022- ... academics/
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One Thai minister has now admitted "he was aware..." and all hell is about to break loose tracing who was behind it all. We already know the answer, but it will be entertaining to read how everyone tries to weasel their way out of it.
Thailand's Latest Cyber-Snooping Revelations 'Tip of the Iceberg'
https://www.voanews.com/a/thailand-s-la ... 68063.html
Bangkok —
Digital security experts and civil rights advocates say recent revelations that at least 30 academics, advocates and pro-democracy activists in Thailand were targeted with sophisticated spyware may be just the “tip of the iceberg” and that their search for more targets will go on.
A pair of reports released this week in Bangkok by Canada’s Citizen Lab and two local rights groups — the Internet Law Reform Dialogue, or iLaw, and DigitalReach — said the team confirmed that 30 Thai activists and academics had their Apple iPhones hacked between 2020 and 2021 with the Pegasus advanced software program.
It is not clear who is behind the attacks.
The Pegasus program, developed and licensed by Israel’s NSO Group, can take complete and covert control of a mobile phone, gaining access to all of its information and communications. What sets Pegasus apart from most other spyware is a so-called “zero click” feature, the ability to infect a phone without having to trick the user into taking any action.
The hacks first came to light last year, when Apple began notifying iPhone owners that their devices had been compromised. Yingcheep Atchanont, iLaw’s program manager, told VOA the joint research team inspected some 200 iPhones and found Pegasus on 10 whose owners had either not received or seen Apple’s alerts. Twenty other of the iPhone owners had seen the alerts and had the infections confirmed by the research team.
Five of the 30 have chosen to remain anonymous. The 25 named targets have all, to some degree, criticized the administration of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha. The former army general toppled the country’s elected government in 2014, and five years later won a controversial election tilted heavily in his favor. Some of the hacking targets are among the most prominent leaders of a protest movement demanding Prayut’s resignation or reform of the country’s powerful monarchy and, taken together, face dozens of criminal charges.
A few are liberal academics, such as Prajak Kongkirati, a political science scholar at Thailand’s Thammasat University, who first dismissed Apple’s alert as spam, not expecting to be the target of any spying.
‘It rarely stops here’
“It’s very scary,” Prajak said after learning of the sweeping access Pegasus grants the spyware operator to the target’s professional and personal life.
“It’s like the 1984 novel,” he added, citing author George Orwell’s vision, from just after World War II, of a dystopian future surveillance state. “But this is in real life, it’s really happening.”
The research team says it could not yet confirm who launched the attacks, but Citizen Lab said at least one of the Pegasus operators behind them was in Thailand as of Monday. The NSO Group has previously stated it sells only to government bodies. Yingcheep, whose own phone was hacked by the program 10 times, said the Thai government would have the most to gain from the attacks.
Citizen Lab’s John Scott-Railton said the team was continuing to search for more targets, and for who exactly was targeting them.
“We’re still investigating all aspects of this case,” he told VOA, adding that hackers may be using other types of spyware besides Pegasus to target Thai activists and advocates as well.
“When you find evidence of this kind of targeting, it rarely stops here,” he said. “For me this is often a tip of the iceberg problem.”
“So far we have only some names in our heads that we think they should be checked, but I know there are more people who can be targets,” said Yingcheep. “We believe that if the government possesses this weapon, the victims will be much more.”
“I believe that there are likely to be more cases,” agreed DigitalReach founder Sutawan Chanprasert.
The team said Apple appears to have closed the digital back door Pegasus was exploiting with its latest operating system. But another potential pool of targets might be found among the many people using phones running Google’s Android system. Sutawan said the team still lacks the tools to check Android phones for Pegasus but is in the early stages of developing them.
“Android is still a mystery, actually, so we still have no clue regarding ... whether Android has patched this kind of vulnerability in their system,” she said. “It’s still a black hole.”
‘I want them to [be held] responsible’
When reports of the Pegasus hacks first surfaced last year, the Thai government denied any involvement. Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said the reported attacks were under investigation.
A government spokesman did not reply to VOA’s request for comment following the latest revelations. On Tuesday, though, the national police told local media they had “never used any spyware to violate anyone’s rights.”
The same day, Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn told the National Assembly, Thailand’s parliament, he was aware of some “very limited” use of spyware by other government agencies, citing anti-narcotics operations as an example but giving no details.
The Israeli Embassy in Thailand and the NSO Group did not reply to VOA’s requests for comment, either. The NSO Group says on its website that its customers are contract-bound to limit the use of its products to serious crimes such as terrorism and “to ensure that the products will not be used to violate human rights.”
Scott-Railton, of Citizen Lab, says there’s very little people can do to stave off zero-click spyware like Pegasus.
In general, though, he advised keeping phones up to date with the latest operating software and to use two-factor authentication for any online accounts, preferably with an authentication application rather than text messaging, which governments can intercept. He also urged Gmail users who believe they may be at high risk of cyber-snooping to sign up for Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which makes their accounts harder to hack by disabling some features.
Yingcheep and Sutawan also suggested using encrypted messaging applications with timed message-deleting options and keeping phones out of audio and visual range during sensitive face-to-face conversations.
Activists are taking note.
Panusaya “Rung” Sithijirawattanakul, one of the most prominent figures of Thailand’s pro-democracy movement, said Apple’s hacking alert arrived while she was in prison awaiting trial on multiple charges of defaming the monarchy, each with the potential to have her jailed for up to 15 years. She found out from her sister after walking out of prison on bail in December.
She says she changed all her passwords, makes sure to keep her phone’s software up to date, and leaves the phone behind for “important conversations.” Everyone else in her circle of activists is now doing the same, she added, though they know nothing is guaranteed to keep their phones or computers completely safe.
“I hope that we can find out eventually who did this,” Panusaya said. “I want them to [be held] responsible.”
Thailand's Latest Cyber-Snooping Revelations 'Tip of the Iceberg'
https://www.voanews.com/a/thailand-s-la ... 68063.html
Bangkok —
Digital security experts and civil rights advocates say recent revelations that at least 30 academics, advocates and pro-democracy activists in Thailand were targeted with sophisticated spyware may be just the “tip of the iceberg” and that their search for more targets will go on.
A pair of reports released this week in Bangkok by Canada’s Citizen Lab and two local rights groups — the Internet Law Reform Dialogue, or iLaw, and DigitalReach — said the team confirmed that 30 Thai activists and academics had their Apple iPhones hacked between 2020 and 2021 with the Pegasus advanced software program.
It is not clear who is behind the attacks.
The Pegasus program, developed and licensed by Israel’s NSO Group, can take complete and covert control of a mobile phone, gaining access to all of its information and communications. What sets Pegasus apart from most other spyware is a so-called “zero click” feature, the ability to infect a phone without having to trick the user into taking any action.
The hacks first came to light last year, when Apple began notifying iPhone owners that their devices had been compromised. Yingcheep Atchanont, iLaw’s program manager, told VOA the joint research team inspected some 200 iPhones and found Pegasus on 10 whose owners had either not received or seen Apple’s alerts. Twenty other of the iPhone owners had seen the alerts and had the infections confirmed by the research team.
Five of the 30 have chosen to remain anonymous. The 25 named targets have all, to some degree, criticized the administration of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha. The former army general toppled the country’s elected government in 2014, and five years later won a controversial election tilted heavily in his favor. Some of the hacking targets are among the most prominent leaders of a protest movement demanding Prayut’s resignation or reform of the country’s powerful monarchy and, taken together, face dozens of criminal charges.
A few are liberal academics, such as Prajak Kongkirati, a political science scholar at Thailand’s Thammasat University, who first dismissed Apple’s alert as spam, not expecting to be the target of any spying.
‘It rarely stops here’
“It’s very scary,” Prajak said after learning of the sweeping access Pegasus grants the spyware operator to the target’s professional and personal life.
“It’s like the 1984 novel,” he added, citing author George Orwell’s vision, from just after World War II, of a dystopian future surveillance state. “But this is in real life, it’s really happening.”
The research team says it could not yet confirm who launched the attacks, but Citizen Lab said at least one of the Pegasus operators behind them was in Thailand as of Monday. The NSO Group has previously stated it sells only to government bodies. Yingcheep, whose own phone was hacked by the program 10 times, said the Thai government would have the most to gain from the attacks.
Citizen Lab’s John Scott-Railton said the team was continuing to search for more targets, and for who exactly was targeting them.
“We’re still investigating all aspects of this case,” he told VOA, adding that hackers may be using other types of spyware besides Pegasus to target Thai activists and advocates as well.
“When you find evidence of this kind of targeting, it rarely stops here,” he said. “For me this is often a tip of the iceberg problem.”
“So far we have only some names in our heads that we think they should be checked, but I know there are more people who can be targets,” said Yingcheep. “We believe that if the government possesses this weapon, the victims will be much more.”
“I believe that there are likely to be more cases,” agreed DigitalReach founder Sutawan Chanprasert.
The team said Apple appears to have closed the digital back door Pegasus was exploiting with its latest operating system. But another potential pool of targets might be found among the many people using phones running Google’s Android system. Sutawan said the team still lacks the tools to check Android phones for Pegasus but is in the early stages of developing them.
“Android is still a mystery, actually, so we still have no clue regarding ... whether Android has patched this kind of vulnerability in their system,” she said. “It’s still a black hole.”
‘I want them to [be held] responsible’
When reports of the Pegasus hacks first surfaced last year, the Thai government denied any involvement. Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said the reported attacks were under investigation.
A government spokesman did not reply to VOA’s request for comment following the latest revelations. On Tuesday, though, the national police told local media they had “never used any spyware to violate anyone’s rights.”
The same day, Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn told the National Assembly, Thailand’s parliament, he was aware of some “very limited” use of spyware by other government agencies, citing anti-narcotics operations as an example but giving no details.
The Israeli Embassy in Thailand and the NSO Group did not reply to VOA’s requests for comment, either. The NSO Group says on its website that its customers are contract-bound to limit the use of its products to serious crimes such as terrorism and “to ensure that the products will not be used to violate human rights.”
Scott-Railton, of Citizen Lab, says there’s very little people can do to stave off zero-click spyware like Pegasus.
In general, though, he advised keeping phones up to date with the latest operating software and to use two-factor authentication for any online accounts, preferably with an authentication application rather than text messaging, which governments can intercept. He also urged Gmail users who believe they may be at high risk of cyber-snooping to sign up for Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which makes their accounts harder to hack by disabling some features.
Yingcheep and Sutawan also suggested using encrypted messaging applications with timed message-deleting options and keeping phones out of audio and visual range during sensitive face-to-face conversations.
Activists are taking note.
Panusaya “Rung” Sithijirawattanakul, one of the most prominent figures of Thailand’s pro-democracy movement, said Apple’s hacking alert arrived while she was in prison awaiting trial on multiple charges of defaming the monarchy, each with the potential to have her jailed for up to 15 years. She found out from her sister after walking out of prison on bail in December.
She says she changed all her passwords, makes sure to keep her phone’s software up to date, and leaves the phone behind for “important conversations.” Everyone else in her circle of activists is now doing the same, she added, though they know nothing is guaranteed to keep their phones or computers completely safe.
“I hope that we can find out eventually who did this,” Panusaya said. “I want them to [be held] responsible.”
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“I hope that we can find out eventually who did this,” Panusaya said. “I want them to [be held] responsible.”
Two different subjects.
Two different subjects.
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One weasel has arrived.
Chaiwut walks back spyware comments
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Chaiwut walks back spyware comments
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Fake news crackdown sees cases top 16,000
The Anti-Fake News Center (AFNC) has analysed 16,843 cases, involving 800 million messages, for fact verification since it was established in November 2019 as part of the government's fight against disinformation, according to the Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry.
The numbers cover the period up to July 20 this year.
The highest proportion of cases were linked to healthcare content, with 49% of the total, followed by state policies at 46%, the economy at 3%, and disasters at 2%.
DES Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn said he was satisfied with a recent decline in the number of fake news reports and complaints, saying it resulted from public awareness of the problem and coordination between the media and 358 state agencies to help verify information.
He stressed the government will not lower its efforts to monitor and counter fake news, although members of the public are becoming more aware of online disinformation.
The administration will scale up cooperation with other agencies to deal with the fake news.
An average of 80 million baht is spent annually on anti-fake news efforts, Mr Chaiwut said.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/23 ... top-16-000
This could have easily gone in the Facebook scourge thread - but a military junta deciding what is fake and what isn't reeks of censorship since almost half of what they deemed 'fake' was about the government.
The Anti-Fake News Center (AFNC) has analysed 16,843 cases, involving 800 million messages, for fact verification since it was established in November 2019 as part of the government's fight against disinformation, according to the Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry.
The numbers cover the period up to July 20 this year.
The highest proportion of cases were linked to healthcare content, with 49% of the total, followed by state policies at 46%, the economy at 3%, and disasters at 2%.
DES Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn said he was satisfied with a recent decline in the number of fake news reports and complaints, saying it resulted from public awareness of the problem and coordination between the media and 358 state agencies to help verify information.
He stressed the government will not lower its efforts to monitor and counter fake news, although members of the public are becoming more aware of online disinformation.
The administration will scale up cooperation with other agencies to deal with the fake news.
An average of 80 million baht is spent annually on anti-fake news efforts, Mr Chaiwut said.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/23 ... top-16-000
This could have easily gone in the Facebook scourge thread - but a military junta deciding what is fake and what isn't reeks of censorship since almost half of what they deemed 'fake' was about the government.
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If it wasn't for censorship, they wouldn't have any ships at all.
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Thousands of offensive websites blocked
Almost 5,000 web addresses have been blocked for running illegal content, including lese majeste and pornography, says the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES).
In the first nine months of this year, the ministry blocked 4,735 URLs on 183 court orders, according to the DES.
The blocked web addresses cover six types of legal violations: lese majeste (1,816 URLs), online gambling (1,507 URLs), immoral acts (1,119 URLs), pornography (219 URLs), sales of e-cigarettes (58 URLs) and overpriced online lottery sales (17 URLs).
The data was released in the wake of announcement by the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau of 2,330 cases of technology crime from Dec 22, 2020 to Aug 31 this year.
The highest number of online technology crimes involved online gambling and trans-border crimes (670 cases), followed by financial fraud (579 cases), and the spread of fake news (483 cases).
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Almost 5,000 web addresses have been blocked for running illegal content, including lese majeste and pornography, says the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES).
In the first nine months of this year, the ministry blocked 4,735 URLs on 183 court orders, according to the DES.
The blocked web addresses cover six types of legal violations: lese majeste (1,816 URLs), online gambling (1,507 URLs), immoral acts (1,119 URLs), pornography (219 URLs), sales of e-cigarettes (58 URLs) and overpriced online lottery sales (17 URLs).
The data was released in the wake of announcement by the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau of 2,330 cases of technology crime from Dec 22, 2020 to Aug 31 this year.
The highest number of online technology crimes involved online gambling and trans-border crimes (670 cases), followed by financial fraud (579 cases), and the spread of fake news (483 cases).
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... es-blocked
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Stricter censorship provision to be enforced this Christmas
On 25 December 2022, online platform providers must abide by a new regulation to quickly deal with complaints from the authorities - and literally everyone else - over content deemed to be in violation of the problematic Computer Crimes Act.
The new regulation was issued by Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn with the aim of establishing procedures for the notification and removal of illegal computer information.
This includes any type of information made available over a public digital network.
Among other things, it stipulates that all online service providers must create channels to receive complaints from the public. Those filing complaints must identify themselves, provide a URL link or location for the questionable content, and explain why they think such information is in violation of the Computer Crimes Act’s Section 14, which details prohibited content.
Apart from filing complaints with online providers, offended parties can also complain to the police.
Upon receiving a complaint, providers must take down the questionable content, and notify all concerned parties within 24 hours.
Those found guilty of noncompliance face punishments of up to five years in jail and 100,000 baht fine. In addition, MDES officers can file a complaint to the police and ask the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications to revoke a providers’ operating licence.
https://prachatai.com/english/node/10128
On 25 December 2022, online platform providers must abide by a new regulation to quickly deal with complaints from the authorities - and literally everyone else - over content deemed to be in violation of the problematic Computer Crimes Act.
The new regulation was issued by Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn with the aim of establishing procedures for the notification and removal of illegal computer information.
This includes any type of information made available over a public digital network.
Among other things, it stipulates that all online service providers must create channels to receive complaints from the public. Those filing complaints must identify themselves, provide a URL link or location for the questionable content, and explain why they think such information is in violation of the Computer Crimes Act’s Section 14, which details prohibited content.
Apart from filing complaints with online providers, offended parties can also complain to the police.
Upon receiving a complaint, providers must take down the questionable content, and notify all concerned parties within 24 hours.
Those found guilty of noncompliance face punishments of up to five years in jail and 100,000 baht fine. In addition, MDES officers can file a complaint to the police and ask the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications to revoke a providers’ operating licence.
https://prachatai.com/english/node/10128
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True Visions blocked BBC World's program featuring an interview with Move Forward Party's Pita Limjaroenrat from their viewers in Thailand this morning.
BBC's Southeast Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, questioned whether True Visions would have also censored the program if they had aired an interview about General Prayut Chan-o-cha instead.
Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai election upstart who vows to be different
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65743967
BBC's Southeast Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, questioned whether True Visions would have also censored the program if they had aired an interview about General Prayut Chan-o-cha instead.
Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai election upstart who vows to be different
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65743967
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I posted the following a couple of weeks ago:
But it not them blocking it, but the Thai censor. The same one that pixalates images of naked stone statues! Little children!
I am the last person to stand up for True Visions, as they are a bunch of 24 carat tossers!They (the generals) will not go willingly! Watching the ABC cable tv last night at 9-00 pm. A small report about the election in Turkey, and then the presenter said; The election in Thailand...................which
was immediately blocked!
They are worse than Trump and his cronies!
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=41403&p=578312#p578312
But it not them blocking it, but the Thai censor. The same one that pixalates images of naked stone statues! Little children!
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil know`s you`re dead!
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The BP seems to be feauturing Prayut a lot, the political coverage seems almost entirely about Prayut to the exclusion of others. As noted in the many comments. But it's primarily owned by the family that owm Central, so no real surprise.
Talk is cheap
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Thai Journalists Association (TJA) issued a statement on Tuesday expressing concerns about censorship of news on Thai politics presented by foreign news agencies by True Visions. The latest casualty was the BBC which interviewed Move Forward Party PM candidate Pita Limjaroenrat and its content was blocked Tuesday morning and replaced by a message that the programme with shortly returned.
Teeranai Charuvastra, TJA Vice President in charge of press freedom and rights said in the statement that True Visions has censored news from five foreign news outlets it carries on its cable TV namely CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, NHK, and ABC Australia. "We also found True Visions delay the broadcast by 4-5 minutes," Teeranai, formerly with Khaosod English said.
Sources told Khaosod English's Pravit Rojanaphruk that the station has staff monitoring news round the clock and anything deemed sensitive, such as the Thai monarchy or the lese majeste law, is blocked.
True Visions, part of CP Group, has issued no statement on the matter.
Source: Khaosod English
Teeranai Charuvastra, TJA Vice President in charge of press freedom and rights said in the statement that True Visions has censored news from five foreign news outlets it carries on its cable TV namely CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, NHK, and ABC Australia. "We also found True Visions delay the broadcast by 4-5 minutes," Teeranai, formerly with Khaosod English said.
Sources told Khaosod English's Pravit Rojanaphruk that the station has staff monitoring news round the clock and anything deemed sensitive, such as the Thai monarchy or the lese majeste law, is blocked.
True Visions, part of CP Group, has issued no statement on the matter.
Source: Khaosod English
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Yes, absolutely correct! Idiots!"We also found True Visions delay the broadcast by 4-5 minutes," Teeranai, formerly with Khaosod English said.
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil know`s you`re dead!