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Home » News from Thailand » Songkran: Heavy penalties for distributing photos or videos of scantily clad women
Internet users who during Songkran spreading photos or videos of scantily clad women and transgender people online will be severely punished, the police warn. The persons in the photo can also count on prosecution for obscene behavior in public.
The publication of the footage is punishable under the heavily criticized Computer Crime Act with prison terms of up to 5 years and/or fines of up to 100.000 baht. Pretexts that the acts happened by chance or that the makers did not know that they were punishable will not be accepted, a police spokesman said. In the past there was a lot of talk about topless ladies on the street during Songkran, mostly ladyboys.
Transport Minister Anupong says that high penalties are also imposed on road users who are under the influence or who violate traffic rules. Checkpoints are set up on various roads.
According to the Interior Ministry, 29 districts in the country are considered dangerous, meaning that the risk of incidents is high. The so-called 'seven dangerous days' campaign will run from 11 to 17 April.
Source: Bangkok Post
Scantily clad men are therefore not a problem. Think boys in Borat thong… but be careful, don't invite anyone for a drink on social media, that's forbidden.
“Social media posts inviting others to drink alcohol was also subject to a maximum one-year jail term and a maximum Bt500,000 fine, as per the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, he noted.”
- https://m.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1659776/cops-to-crack-down-on-lurid-videos-pics
- http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30367498
Murals in Thai temples often show women with bare breasts, in Isan a number of times completely naked women on the outer walls of the sacred ubosoth from the 20th century. And until 1920, many Thai women simply walked around with bare breasts. Ah, we must respect, preserve and perhaps bring back that beautiful ancient Thai culture!
The police agree with you Tino, maintaining Thai traditions. Police colonel Siriwat “urged youth to continue good Thai traditions instead.”. So get out of that outerwear. Those modern influences from the West, such as wearing outerwear, conflict with those beautiful good Thai traditions!
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2019/04/11/cop-warn-of-jail-time-for-online-nudity-booze-posts-during-songkran/
Oh, oh Tino. If Baudet says something like that about Dutch culture, then the house is too small. But of course I agree with you. Like usually.
No, I don't mean that Thailand should bring back the old traditions, that was irony. Everyone just has to dress appropriately, which varies per country, place and time. The nonsense lies in referring to old Thai traditions and making it a criminal offence.
In 1977 I went to visit my wife's aunt. She received us with bare breasts and remained so throughout our visit. She was a city person and she had enough money to buy clothes; it was just tradition. She was well into her seventies.
The logic completely escapes you that it is allowed to walk down the street like this, but not to publish a photo of that reality. Of women then, men apparently is not a problem. How crooked and hypocritical can you reason?
Yes, that is more important than those 1000 deaths in traffic!
Soon song kran can only be celebrated in Burqa, at least in terms of photo material. Anyway, nice challenge for photo enthusiasts to generate photos with the ladies behind fake clothing so that the moral know-it-alls are satisfied again. Kind of censor that can of course be removed again with the right code lol.
It is a difference if you have murals and also a time when the women JUST walked around with bare breasts.
The difference here is that now everyone thinks they should be sexy. No, it just isn't there anymore. The entire Songkran is seen by those people as a kind of Carnival, an outlet in which they can let themselves go.
The whole world doesn't even know what Songkran is all about. Elsewhere on this blog ask a young backpacker where to celebrate near the Khao San Songkran. He just wants to know where you can have water parties and water slaughter.
Don't need to go into what Songkran is or isn't, but that what happens in Pattaya and wherever too many Westerners hang around has nothing to do with Songkran.
Sjaak S, you are mistaken. for several hundred years, Songkran has been a party with two faces, a genteel, official, neat side and a wild, fierce side. Songkran is just a New Year celebration, nothing else. We used to go to mass and then eat good food, squeeze and set off fireworks. Same in Thailand.
That may well be the case, but as things have been going on in recent years, things really started to get out of hand. I have been coming to Thailand regularly since 1982 and have been here several times during Songkran. Can't remember it being so "sexy" back then.. I think this exhibitionism is something of the last few years.
Not so good for songkran I guess. For many people, that's where the fun ends.
The fact that these women spend an entire year sleeping with tourists is not punished.
This, of course, is normal for the government.
If not, they no longer have any income = hotels-restaurants-taxi-flights and just keep going…
But with Sonkrang nothing is allowed!
Understanding who still can…
I don't like the whole Songkran thing and it's a nice time to read a book at home. Photos of Songkran are absolutely nix, almost as bad as all those free advertising photos of beer bottles that many keep posting on FB and photos of food. Should all be banned.
And Tino, a few thousand years ago this country did not even exist and clothing and fireworks had not yet been invented. How far back do you have to go for the traditions of Thainess?
Ah, how long ago? It depends on. Want to promote a paternal kingthen back 700 years to the Sukhotai era. If you want a strong army, you refer to the attacks of the Burmese between the 16th and 18th centuries, etc.
Why should a Thai always refer to Thai culture when formulating a moral principle. "We Thais don't do that and we never have." So that's not true.
I also always stayed home with Songkran. But the foreigners are the most annoying
Good day dear people.
Unbelievable that people in Thailand use such insane fines and prison sentences for relatively innocent things.
This global depravity proliferates like a cancer, invented by people who think they hold the moral standard high. (just keep an eye on that one) My late father said: The neater the gentleman, the bigger the beast.
All freedom built up in the sixties has been broken down. You will no longer see bare buttocks or breasts on TV for many years, a report about a naturist is digitally 'blocked', We used to laugh at American prudishness, well we are arrived at a (globally) similar stage but then anti-nudity 3.0, and it only gets worse.
All this is nothing more and less than learned behavior. A baby or toddler will not get hot or cold if scantily clad people spray themselves with water at 35 degrees during songkran.
Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle with the perversion, and hysterical movements such as "Me too" are the highlight, did you happen to squeeze someone in the buttocks 40 years ago, or kiss someone on the neck with a drink, then you should not be surprised be surprised that the police still come by, or that they try to drag your career or name through the mud.
The whole world has gone crazy, there has never been so much unrest and tension in the political field, and fleeing to Thailand makes little sense 🙂
I wish everyone a nice day. KhunKarel
Dear Khan Karel,
I agree with you that the fines mentioned are disproportionate and that a certain amount of depravity is taking the upper hand, but… to bring in the Me Too movement is going too far for me.
I do not know how old you are and therefore how long you have been out of business or office and what you have been through. The women who contributed to Me Too don't complain about a kiss on the neck during office parties, but about extensive sexual harassment in the workplace that you apparently have no knowledge of. Moreover, we don't like being pinched in the bottom just like that!
Take it back!
Maryse
Dear editors,
This doesn't have much to do with the topic anymore, but I hope you'll allow me to respond to Marysa demanding that I take back what I said about 'ME TOO'
My thanks KhunKarel
Dear Maryse
Women of ME TOO are no saints and they respond with American prudishness, one usually has to do little to be accused
The Me Too and contemporary women's movements are the product of the corruption, and is a disgrace to the original sincere women's movement who wanted equal rights. This has nothing to do with the original objective at all, and everyone is now rightly or wrongly out for collective revenge due to setbacks in life, and the white heterosexual male is usually the target here.
Incidentally, one of the leaders of Me too (Asia Argento) was not charged herself? This for sexual acts with an actor who was too young who was not yet 18 at the time of the sexual assault.
Today, everyone can easily be driven completely mad and put in the shoes of certain groups of people who believe that their opinion and ideas should be heard, one way or another, and put on the agenda.
Even now reparations are being demanded for slavery, and then? Demand reparations from the Spanish or the French? for what happened centuries ago?
The cause of all the uproar and excitement socially (as well as in politics) is the fact that now there is the internet and because a lot of people are on antidepressant medication, which results in very negative behavior changes, plus another big one. group of followers who like to be in the spotlight and love to run amok. It almost seems like everyone has been brainwashed.
Don't get me wrong, everyone should respect each other, and grabby butt-squeezing men should keep their hands to themselves, but don't try to destroy someone's life 40 years later, as is now popular in America.
Something completely different is going on at the moment, everyone is heavily offended by something or someone today, enough information about this on the internet, and this is not fake news.
I myself can confidently state that I have never misbehaved towards women, but I have seen and experienced the opposite.
I therefore do not take anything back from what I have said because I am free to have an opinion,
Have a nice day KhunKarel
Rather tackle those Thai series on TV. Never seen so much violence and blood as in Thailand on TV
How is it in NL during the carnival parades.
In our village and several villages and towns, offensive cars are also removed from the parade.
khun karel
Unfortunately, you are right on many points. You start to wonder whether you did something wrong 40 or 50 years ago. They like old cows now. Young meat is certainly no longer tasty.
This morning we went to the local market (in the province of Ubon). Nowhere was water thrown: not at the market, not on the way there and not on the way back. And scantily clad women? Not even.