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Pirongrong Ramasoota
Table 5.3
SUMMARY OF SELF-CENSORSHIP PRACTICES IN ONLINE POLITICAL DISCUSSION FORUMS
IN THE POST-2006-COUP PERIOD
Name of Online Discussion
Forum
Self-Censorship/Self-Regulation Practices
www.midnightuniv.org
After lifting of the ban on the Web site in the days following
the coup, the webmaster changed the site ’ s comment-posting
procedure by having all the posters send him an e-mail
message rather than posting directly onto the forum so that
he could fi lter all the postings fi rsthand. The practice,
however, put off many regular visitors to the forum, which
became a read-only forum without direct interaction among
the forum users.
L è se-majest é has been the key criterion in monitoring
postings, with particular sensitivity noted during the coupinstalled government and the Abhisit Vejjajiva government.
www.prachathaiwebboard.com
Working staff have taken turns to maintain 24-hour
monitoring of the forum to keep the postings under close
watch, with l è se-majest é content a top priority.
A distributed system of content monitoring was set up to
enable Web moderators and users (with membership longer
than one month) to mutually develop a watch list of
problematic postings by fl agging them. Web moderators look
into the watch list and make fi nal judgments about which
postings ought to be deleted.
www.pantip.com*
(Rajdamnoen room)
Webmaster installed a one-person-one-account regulation
system in which each member has to register with a citizen
ID number. Only registered members are eligible to post in
the forum. This way, all members/posters know that they are
traceable.
Web site policy states that the Web moderator has the right
to remove all postings regardless of direction (positive or
negative) related to the royal family.
*www.pantip.com, or pantip for short, is a popular Web site that specializes in online forums. Its many
forums and chat rooms encompass almost all topics of common interest, ranging from politics, science,
sports, and fashion to entertainment. Its political online forum is named Rajdamnoen after a major
thoroughfare in Bangkok where the Democracy monument is located and where many historic prodemocracy street protests took place. Transliterated in Thai, pantip means a thousand tips. The name
derived from Pantip Plaza, a very famous computer mall in Bangkok.
Pirongrong Ramasoota
Table 5.3
SUMMARY OF SELF-CENSORSHIP PRACTICES IN ONLINE POLITICAL DISCUSSION FORUMS
IN THE POST-2006-COUP PERIOD
Name of Online Discussion
Forum
Self-Censorship/Self-Regulation Practices
www.midnightuniv.org
After lifting of the ban on the Web site in the days following
the coup, the webmaster changed the site ’ s comment-posting
procedure by having all the posters send him an e-mail
message rather than posting directly onto the forum so that
he could fi lter all the postings fi rsthand. The practice,
however, put off many regular visitors to the forum, which
became a read-only forum without direct interaction among
the forum users.
L è se-majest é has been the key criterion in monitoring
postings, with particular sensitivity noted during the coupinstalled government and the Abhisit Vejjajiva government.
www.prachathaiwebboard.com
Working staff have taken turns to maintain 24-hour
monitoring of the forum to keep the postings under close
watch, with l è se-majest é content a top priority.
A distributed system of content monitoring was set up to
enable Web moderators and users (with membership longer
than one month) to mutually develop a watch list of
problematic postings by fl agging them. Web moderators look
into the watch list and make fi nal judgments about which
postings ought to be deleted.
www.pantip.com*
(Rajdamnoen room)
Webmaster installed a one-person-one-account regulation
system in which each member has to register with a citizen
ID number. Only registered members are eligible to post in
the forum. This way, all members/posters know that they are
traceable.
Web site policy states that the Web moderator has the right
to remove all postings regardless of direction (positive or
negative) related to the royal family.
*www.pantip.com, or pantip for short, is a popular Web site that specializes in online forums. Its many
forums and chat rooms encompass almost all topics of common interest, ranging from politics, science,
sports, and fashion to entertainment. Its political online forum is named Rajdamnoen after a major
thoroughfare in Bangkok where the Democracy monument is located and where many historic prodemocracy street protests took place. Transliterated in Thai, pantip means a thousand tips. The name
derived from Pantip Plaza, a very famous computer mall in Bangkok.