<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi Mishari,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-23 16:56 GMT+02:00 Mishari Muqbil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mishari@mishari.net" target="_blank">mishari@mishari.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I had an interesting conversation with legal today.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm assuming "legal" is a department at your workplace.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Even if it's the truth, it's criminal libel if you state it as a<br>
brothel. There's an interesting saying which you can Google that goes<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is too bad for you in Thailand. Makes me wonder what other facts you are prohibited from stating.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The people who will be liable under the Computer Crimes Act are those<br>
who enter the information, those who host and those who display the<br>
information. So for example, website A shows a map containing a POI in<br>
Thailand tagged as a brothel, a police report can be filed to have owner<br>
of website A prosecuted.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I understand better why you are concerned then. In reality it makes you unable (/criminal) to map certain things because you are in Thailand. Even if these "parlours" were to be mapped as amenity=brothel on OSM, a Thai online map service could still show them as "soapland" on a map. One could perhaps also argue that you as a Thai user perhaps could tag these as amenity=brothel + brothel=soapland and not be libelous because you were using the "International OSM" definition of brothel and not the Thai version of brothel (which is unlawful and therefore does not exist)? If every online map service in Thailand is to be liable for everything that the map displays, to such a degree, it makes it very hard to use OSM data in Thailand.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've also been advised that Thailand is not the only country with this<br>
legal concept and that as we should be mindful and cautious of this.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am pretty sure that for most free countries this isn't much of an issue, at least not for the OSM user doing the tagging. Civil liberties isn't where Thailand does best...</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Guttorm Flatabø</div></div></div></div>