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Thailand's 2007 Computer Crimes Act bans any material that
causes "damage to the country's security or causes public panic"
or "any obscene computer data which is accessible to the
public".
The culture ministry said offenders faced up to five years in
jail, but did not say how they would identify the culprits.
"When people take these 'underboob selfies' no one can see their
faces," ministry spokesman Anandha Chouchoti told Reuters. "So
it's like, we don't know who these belong to, and it encourages
others to do the same.
"We can only warn people to not take it up. They are
inappropriate actions."
The ministry has long been criticized for being overzealous in
its censorship of films, music, television and some Western
cultural practices in an attempt to preserve traditional values
of a country that is also infamous of its raunchy night life.
(Reporting By Kaweewit Kaewjinda; Editing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre
and Jeremy Laurence)
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