Thai Web Crackdown Blocks YouTube
Thomas Fuller writes in The International Herald Tribune:
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Thailand's military-appointed government has blocked access to YouTube and several other Internet sites in a crackdown on material that denigrates the country's monarch, officials said Wednesday.
"We have blocked YouTube because it contains a video insulting to our king," said Winai Yoosabai, head of the censorship unit at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.
Thailand's ban of the popular video-sharing Web site came after YouTube's owner, Google, refused to remove the video clip, the communications minister, Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, said.
The clip, crude and amateurish and lasting less than a minute, depicts the king with a pair of feet being placed over his head, a highly insulting gesture in Thailand.
posted by Fergie @ 4/04/2007 10:41:00 AM
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