Global voice online reports: “The past few weeks have seen YouTube blocked again as well as Prachatai, Thailand’s foremost independent news portal and Same Sky, a journal of social criticism. Both sites have popular public Web discussion boards. In the past, both sites have been warned by MICT to self-censor “sensitive” public comments.
The difference between Internet censorship in Thailand and that in the Middle East, Myanmar and China is that Thailand is famously a Constitutional monarchy. Thailand claims to be a democracy but operate government-in-secret, above the law.
Now Thailand’s newly-elected government and its new ICT Minister are using lèse majesté as its ongoing excuse to block freedom of opinion and expression by Thais on issues vital to Thai society.”
Ans is testing direct automatic blogging from his Digg account. Censorship is old. People who try to use power to suppress free speech have to learn that the good old times are gone. Internet offers many ways to express and share your opinion. There is no way stopping people from doing so. Bypassing a block on websites is easy by going through a proxy server. Ans has access to youtube and is even uploading a movie using Youtubeproxy.
I really don’t likethe current situation here in Thailand. It affects my sales, my life and and and. When is it going to end …