Thread: More Website Blocking?

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Easy way round it.

that is great

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

no biggy really.

it's one wikipedia entry.

could be worse, could be subject to Australian censorship.

Do you think they blocked it because I added those cartoon sex figures to the coronation photos?

On October 28, 2008, The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) announced plans to spend about 100 million to 500 million baht to build a gateway to block websites with contents defaming the royal institution.

Money well spent and a flexible budget. Excellent proposal.

Her's a good example why:

American journalist Paul Handley, who spent thirteen years in Thailand, wrote the biography The King Never Smiles. The Information and Communications Ministry banned the book and blocked the book's page on the Yale University Press website in January 2006. In a statement dated 19 January 2006, Thai National Police Chief General Kowit Wattana said the book has "contents which could affect national security and the good morality of the people."

Dastardly cad! I'm sure the good general read the book from cover to cover and is well versed in Thai history to judge. Simply cannot have these risks to national security . . . and threats to the good morality of the people. (Pattay, Phuket, Soi Cowboy, Soi8 etc . . . are exempted from this category as heathen westerners have corrupted the gentle Thai in these places)

Here we have it, lese majeste refers to EVERYONE:

, who had access to the Royal Court and the Royal Family, wrote the biography The Revolutionary King in 2001.[132] An article in Time says the idea for the book was suggested by Bhumibol.[133] Critics noted that the book displays intimate knowledge about personal aspects of Bhumibol. However, the book has been unofficially banned in Thailand and the Bureau of the Royal Household has warned the Thai media about even referring to it in print. (An official ban was not possible as it was written with the Royal blessing.) The book has been criticised for factual inaccuracies (geographical and historical) , disrespecting Bhumibol (it refers to Bhumibol by his family nickname "Lek") , and proposing a controversial theory explaining the death of King Ananda. Stevenson said, "The King said from the beginning the book would be dangerous for him and for me."

Lek?

Originally Posted by DrB0b

What happens when you go here?

Bhumibol Adulyadej - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just go here instead.

Bhumibol Adulyadej - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Thai translation of the The Economist's recent article on some royalty has appeared on thaienews.blogspot.com.

I wonder how long that will stay up

Originally Posted by DrB0b

What happens when you go here?

CAT Telecom and it works fine for me. Government probably thinks as I am located in a village full of ignorant, illiterate peasants there is no need to block the site.