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stroller · 24-05-2007, 12:28 AM

The complete, secret blocklists of Thailand’s “Official Censor of the Military Coup” are available to ISPs but not to the public at www.i-am-thai.com which redirects the page to http://cyberinspector.org/ict/modules/viewisp/login.php.

Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) tendered its information request before Ministry of Information and Communication Technology on February 9, 2007, under the provisions of Thailand’s Official Information Act precisely because of such government secrecy. Also of major public concern is by which Thai law does MICT block the Internet.

On March 8, MICT replied to FACT’s request by refusing to answer, citing as grounds issues of national security and law enforcement, two of the escape clauses in the Act. MICT did tell FACT what basis in law the censors use: martial law! Of course, they didn’t mention what law was used before the military coup on September 19, 2006. All MICT really supplied are prurient details of what Thai law courts have ruled to be pornographic.

FACT will submit its formal complaint before the Official Information Commission to force MICT into compliance with transparent and accountable government under the Thai Constitution.Although the actual number of websites blocked by MICT has decreased on March 12 to 10,885 sites, a reduction of nearly 20% from January 11’s blocklist, this does not herald less censorship in Thailand. 10,885 blocked websites in March is still a rise of over 400% from the October 2006 blocklist’s 2,475 sites.
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Censors still busy: An Analysis of MICT's Secret Blocklist March 12, 2007 « FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

watterinja · 24-05-2007, 12:37 AM

Welcome to The Land of the Free

dirtydog · 24-05-2007, 01:16 AM

Load of bolloxs stroller, I just tried 5 of the blocked sites from the top of their list with the nastiest names and none were blocked, also the blocked list is or used to be open for the public to view.

lom · 24-05-2007, 01:20 AM

The blocking is also not consistent, it is on and off.
More off than on..
And also depending on what ISP you have, some of them has part of their international connection going outside of CAT.

Butterfly · 24-05-2007, 09:13 AM

they use some DNS re-routing to block those sites.

build your own master DNS server with the official root.zone, and that should solve a number of bans

Begbie · 24-05-2007, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butterfly

they use some DNS re-routing to block those sites.

build your own master DNS server with the official root.zone, and that should solve a number of bans

Can you repeat that in english ?

24-05-2007, 12:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
stroller Kraut Last Online: 01-07-2008 10:03 AM Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: under the headphones Posts: 17,181	An Analysis of MICT’s Secret Blocklist The complete, secret blocklists of Thailand’s “Official Censor of the Military Coup” are available to ISPs but not to the public at www.i-am-thai.com which redirects the page to http://cyberinspector.org/ict/modules/viewisp/login.php. Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) tendered its information request before Ministry of Information and Communication Technology on February 9, 2007, under the provisions of Thailand’s Official Information Act precisely because of such government secrecy. Also of major public concern is by which Thai law does MICT block the Internet. On March 8, MICT replied to FACT’s request by refusing to answer, citing as grounds issues of national security and law enforcement, two of the escape clauses in the Act. MICT did tell FACT what basis in law the censors use: martial law! Of course, they didn’t mention what law was used before the military coup on September 19, 2006. All MICT really supplied are prurient details of what Thai law courts have ruled to be pornographic. FACT will submit its formal complaint before the Official Information Commission to force MICT into compliance with transparent and accountable government under the Thai Constitution.Although the actual number of websites blocked by MICT has decreased on March 12 to 10,885 sites, a reduction of nearly 20% from January 11’s blocklist, this does not herald less censorship in Thailand. 10,885 blocked websites in March is still a rise of over 400% from the October 2006 blocklist’s 2,475 sites. ... Censors still busy: An Analysis of MICT's Secret Blocklist March 12, 2007 « FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

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24-05-2007, 12:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
watterinja Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: exp(i*pi)=-1=i^2 Posts: 3,006	Welcome to The Land of the Free

24-05-2007, 01:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
dirtydog The Dog Last Online: Today 03:25 AM Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Pattaya Posts: 31,768	Load of bolloxs stroller, I just tried 5 of the blocked sites from the top of their list with the nastiest names and none were blocked, also the blocked list is or used to be open for the public to view.

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lom Elite Member Last Online: Today 12:52 AM Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,756	The blocking is also not consistent, it is on and off. More off than on.. And also depending on what ISP you have, some of them has part of their international connection going outside of CAT.

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Butterfly Suspended Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,468	they use some DNS re-routing to block those sites. build your own master DNS server with the official root.zone, and that should solve a number of bans

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