ARGH I hate this damn country.
They censor too much here in Thailand. I know they censor more in China, but that's China, an ex-communist country, blah blah. "Thailand is not Burma or China or North Korea (yet)."
Some of the ridiculous things censored:
Porn. Okay, not so ridiculous, but they manage to ban 80% of the decent porn sites you can find.
News articles saying anything (even good things) about the King or the ex-prime minister are blocked.
ImageShack because you can host porn on there. It gets removed, but it's still on there for a moment.
on TV:
Up until 2006, commercials advertising any product were censored by Public Service Announcements. Now, however, the majority of commercials are let through.
Things blocked:
Nudity, Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs, and "weapons pointed at human beings".
EVEN IN CARTOONS.
The 'Red Guy' in Cow and Chicken is replaced by a giant blurry-pink blob, because he doesn't wear pants.
In Futurama they censored Bender smoking the giant cigar which looks more like old paper. They censored a cartoon robot smoking a lump of paper.
Several scenes in American Dad are blacked out, where there's a gun or a knife or anything.
During the coup, NHK, BBC, CNN and CNBC were all blacked out. Meh.
outside:
any signs advertising/promoting alcohol. which includes signs that say 'WE SERVE BEER'. Banned. Gone.
Including the famous pretty heineken/singha beer girls who walk around half naked to serve you beer.
That's like taking away beer and porn at the same time.
RARGH.
Let's just see how long it takes for them to ban BF2S from Thailand.
edit: okay i have no idea why i just posted this....
They censor too much here in Thailand. I know they censor more in China, but that's China, an ex-communist country, blah blah. "Thailand is not Burma or China or North Korea (yet)."
Some of the ridiculous things censored:
Porn. Okay, not so ridiculous, but they manage to ban 80% of the decent porn sites you can find.
News articles saying anything (even good things) about the King or the ex-prime minister are blocked.
ImageShack because you can host porn on there. It gets removed, but it's still on there for a moment.
on TV:
Up until 2006, commercials advertising any product were censored by Public Service Announcements. Now, however, the majority of commercials are let through.
Things blocked:
Nudity, Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs, and "weapons pointed at human beings".
EVEN IN CARTOONS.
The 'Red Guy' in Cow and Chicken is replaced by a giant blurry-pink blob, because he doesn't wear pants.
In Futurama they censored Bender smoking the giant cigar which looks more like old paper. They censored a cartoon robot smoking a lump of paper.
Several scenes in American Dad are blacked out, where there's a gun or a knife or anything.
During the coup, NHK, BBC, CNN and CNBC were all blacked out. Meh.
outside:
any signs advertising/promoting alcohol. which includes signs that say 'WE SERVE BEER'. Banned. Gone.
Including the famous pretty heineken/singha beer girls who walk around half naked to serve you beer.
That's like taking away beer and porn at the same time.
RARGH.
Let's just see how long it takes for them to ban BF2S from Thailand.
edit: okay i have no idea why i just posted this....
Last edited by Coolbeano (2006-12-29 10:22:32)
