YouTube negotiating end of ban in Thailand
One of the YouTube’s benefits is its size, and that’s why Google can try to negotiate a quick end of Thai ban of this site. Thailand blocked YouTube on Wednesday after its owner, Google Inc., refused to remove the slideshow of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The initial video, which was withdrawn Thursday, showed pictures of feet over the king’s head – a major cultural taboo in Thailand, where feet are considered dirty and offensive – and graffiti scrawled over the 79-year-old monarch’s face. At least one still frame from the video remained on the site. A variation of the withdrawn video reappeared Friday, along with another one that showed a picture of the king superimposed with a monkey’s face. It also carried messages with profanities and said Thailand’s “leaders are evil and hate free speech.
YouTube said Thailand’s information ministry was having difficulty blocking individual videos. It’s up to the Thailand government to decide whether to block specific videos, but we would rather that than have them block the entire site. Insulting the monarchy in Thailand is a crime. Last week, a Swiss man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for vandalizing portraits of the king. Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, the minister of information and technology, said the government remove its ban on the site only when it has the technical capacity to block individual pages or until all the contentious clips are blocked or removed. These are the moments when you realize the overlooked power of freedom – well, many ISPs do the same thing too…
Comments(9)
Same shit happend to Turkey. Except the negotiation part.
I wonder why…
hey King Bhumibol Adulyadej: go fuck yourself, you prick.
the Thai government can’t ban us all!!
Sam they dont want to ban all, only the thai people so they dont need to see that shit.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej is total asshole, and i cant understand how an entire country worship him.
Hope this fuck dies soon.
“leaders are evil and hate free speech”
Well this kinda seems to sum it up
you all fucked
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=114997
more a more detailed look at the affair. From a Thai Western view.
tester
I hope u dies soon.
testerkiller:
Stop wasting your time online, and go lick your king’s ass till he dies!