Thailand blocks YouTube for clip mocking king
By Reuters
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Ministry of Information and Communication Technology blocked access to video-sharing Web site YouTube on Wednesday after its owner, Google, declined to withdraw a video clip mocking the country’s monarch.
Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom told Reuters he ordered a block of the entire site from Thailand after the ministry’s attempts to block the offending page last week failed.
“Since Google has rejected our repeated requests to withdraw the clip, we can’t help blocking the entire site in Thailand,” said Sitthichai, a telecommunications professor who said he had spent most of his academic life researching eavesdropping devices.
“When they decide to withdraw the clip, we will withdraw the ban,” he said.
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What a tragedy! I need youtube. It’s my entertainment at work! Geeze… I wish that stupid head who posted the offending clip burn in hell!
Anyway I disagree with blocking the whole site of YouTube dot com. Even If I saw that clip, it wouldn’t change any thing. I still love my King. You gotta have more faith in Thai people that we have our own judgement whether it’s right or wrong. Blocking is not the best solution here. We are democracy.
