I read that You Tube is back on in Thailand now
so here`s a link to a funny video
You Tube is back
-
Jack Daniel
- Rookie
- Posts: 13
- Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:26 am
- Location: Norway/Hua Nin
-
Jack Daniel
- Rookie
- Posts: 13
- Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:26 am
- Location: Norway/Hua Nin
Political websites,YouTube, to be allowed by ICT
BANGKOK, June 25 (TNA) -
The Information and Communication Technology Ministry plans to ask the cabinet to waive a decree
issued by the Council for National Security, earlier known as the Council for Democratic Reform,
which has prohibited political websites, said ICT minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom.
The junta's decree, known as Order No. 5,
which has banned political websites, will be lifted by the Surayud cabinet this week in order to make the people feel better
now that the political situation has improved and a general election is to be held, he said.
The ICT minister who claimed to have banned only about 200 websites, 90 per cent of which featured pornography
said that Thai-based internet users will again be allowed to access www.youtube.com,
the popular video-sharing website, in particular, after it had been blocked for several months.
Google, the US-based parent corporation of YouTube, had offered to see to it that any lese majeste content
will be kept off that website, he added.
The ministry in early April began blocking the popular video-sharing website after it showed a sequence of video clips
considered insulting to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
BANGKOK, June 25 (TNA) -
The Information and Communication Technology Ministry plans to ask the cabinet to waive a decree
issued by the Council for National Security, earlier known as the Council for Democratic Reform,
which has prohibited political websites, said ICT minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom.
The junta's decree, known as Order No. 5,
which has banned political websites, will be lifted by the Surayud cabinet this week in order to make the people feel better
now that the political situation has improved and a general election is to be held, he said.
The ICT minister who claimed to have banned only about 200 websites, 90 per cent of which featured pornography
said that Thai-based internet users will again be allowed to access www.youtube.com,
the popular video-sharing website, in particular, after it had been blocked for several months.
Google, the US-based parent corporation of YouTube, had offered to see to it that any lese majeste content
will be kept off that website, he added.
The ministry in early April began blocking the popular video-sharing website after it showed a sequence of video clips
considered insulting to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
-
Randy Cornhole
- Rock Star
- Posts: 3701
- Joined: Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:01 pm
- Location: London
- Contact:
BANGKOK (AFP) — Thailand, which just ended a five-month ban on the video-sharing site YouTube, now wants to block clips that accuse a top royal adviser of masterminding last year's coup, an official said Saturday.
"The video clips pose a threat to our national security," said Yanaphon Youngyuen, head of the justice ministry's cyber-crime department.
The two video clips, narrated in Thai with English subtitles, accuse General Prem Tinsulanonda, 87-year-old adviser to the widely respected King Bhumibol Adulyadej, of masterminding the coup in September 2006.
Prem has denied orchestrating the takeover.
Yanaphon said the government would only block the two video clips, not the entire site.
Thailand's army-backed government, which came to power after the putsch, banned YouTube in early April after an anonymous user posted a clip showing digitally-altered images of the king next to a photograph of feet.
Thais believe feet are the lowest and dirtiest part of the body, and avoid ever showing their soles in public. Placing feet next to someone's head is seen as a massive insult.
The government lifted the ban at the end of August after YouTube installed filters to stop viewers here seeing clips deemed offensive to the 79-year-old king.
"The video clips pose a threat to our national security," said Yanaphon Youngyuen, head of the justice ministry's cyber-crime department.
The two video clips, narrated in Thai with English subtitles, accuse General Prem Tinsulanonda, 87-year-old adviser to the widely respected King Bhumibol Adulyadej, of masterminding the coup in September 2006.
Prem has denied orchestrating the takeover.
Yanaphon said the government would only block the two video clips, not the entire site.
Thailand's army-backed government, which came to power after the putsch, banned YouTube in early April after an anonymous user posted a clip showing digitally-altered images of the king next to a photograph of feet.
Thais believe feet are the lowest and dirtiest part of the body, and avoid ever showing their soles in public. Placing feet next to someone's head is seen as a massive insult.
The government lifted the ban at the end of August after YouTube installed filters to stop viewers here seeing clips deemed offensive to the 79-year-old king.