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The warning can supposedly be found inside the in-flight magazine of Philippine Airlines and has been circulated on Twitter.
Passengers with Philippine Airlines are told that "Despite being under military control, Thailand is very safe for tourists" but are offered five tips to help "blend in".
They include "carry your passport (or a copy) with you at all times", "avoid wearing red t-shirts, which are associated with a group opposed to the military government", and "don't carry George Orwell's dystopian novel '1984'. You don't want to be mistaken for an anti-coup protestor."
[Editor's addition follows]
The Telegraph has a more recent article which lists
eight things that can get you arrested in Thailand:
- Wearing T-shirts that could "promote division"
- Eating sandwiches in public
- Reading certain books
- Posting anything deemed critical of the military online
- Gatherings of more than five people
- Raising a "Hunger Games" salute
- Being labelled "problematic", or a political activist
- Playing a non-approved computer game
We here at SoylentNews endeavor to promote journalistic independence and freedom. Some may find it easy to laugh at such dystopian rules in a foreign land, but these can be a wake-up call to those in a country which claims greater freedoms. Are these freedoms still in effect? Are they being encroached? Where and in what ways? What can be done about it?
Consider recent efforts to have ISPs provide filters in the UK and for logging of customers' net traffic in the UK and Australia. Consider, too, the reports of the NSA's huge new data processing facility in Utah and the Snowden-leaked documents which identify massive data collection.
"Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty."
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. (Qu’on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j’y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.)" Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1585–1642).
Do you find pervasive recording of your physical and on-line travels troublesome? What steps have you taken, if any, to protect yourself? Firewalls? Installed https-everywhere? Used a VPN and/or TOR? Encryption? What would you recommend as best practices to your fellow Soylents and others in the world at large?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 22 2014, @03:06AM
First, porn has been the driving force behind the success of a lot of technology: home movie projectors, VCRs, DVDs, and now the 'Net.
Next, 90 percent of EVERYTHING is crap. [wikipedia.org]
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting notes that there are a lot of duplicitous [google.com] and unreliable sources of information. [google.com]
OTOH, there are online places that they have used for citations [google.com] (with no negative mentions). [google.com]
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Even from the POV of "Internet as free public library" the Internet isn't as valuable as it's made out to be.
You need to improve your Google-fu.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by pnkwarhall on Tuesday September 23 2014, @02:40AM
porn has been the driving force behind [...] a lot of technology
To follow the logic: porn --> better technology --> closer, healthier relationships (i.e. "togetherness")
Still stand behind it?
Also RE: Google-fu -- Damn it, Google keeps taking away my search operators!!
(I replied in seriousness to your "public library" sentiment in a lower reply)
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @05:26PM
Some couples consume porn together.
Some committed couples make their own porn.
Some partners appreciate it when the guy goes to a strip club or watches porn and is then all charged up.
The spectrum of human activities is pretty broad.
As long as the choosing of your mate isn't done in haste and everybody is clear on the ground rules, there can be lots of acceptable permutations.
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Google keeps taking away my search operators
I'm a pretty demanding user of their search service and I don't see anything missing.
They even created a page for the *needs training wheels* crowd.
Now, for a while there, they hadn't figured out that there are a great number of folks who DON'T want synonyms.
They added the Verbose thing fairly quickly for the *don't screw with my search string* guys.
That method even honors dots and hyphens between words in a phrase like the old way.
The only real difference between that reimplementation and the original is that phrases with a wildcard in the middle get completely mangled.
For those, you may as well go to the new "improved" page and use a bunch of quotation marks.
-- gewg_