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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/03/11/youtube-blocked-inthailand/

  • Elliot · 2 years ago
    hmmm I'm calling Cuba on this one...or may be Iran
  • Dan · 2 years ago
    Algeria. Or Pakistan. I imagine it's already blocked in Myanmar/Burma, and Zimbabwe.
  • Rex · 2 years ago
    Vietnam!
  • kwandom · 2 years ago
    Chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin. Makes a huge difference! Anyways, my guess is Hong Kong.
  • Maki · 2 years ago
    I say .. Malaysia!
  • thierry · 2 years ago
    Why did you say Belgium??
    explain...
  • brayker · 2 years ago
    come on people get real it will be china
  • Steve · 2 years ago
    New Zealand. Without a doubt.
  • Dave · 2 years ago
    In Thailand now... YouTube is working fine. Perhaps it is only some ISPs
  • Patrick · 2 years ago
    YouTube was not blocked in Thailand as I live in Thailand and was watching Videos the whole time. It was a misconfiguration at the central proxyserver in Bangkok through which all requests out of Thailand are routed.

    Last week I could not load any subdomain of the blogs at wordpress.com for the same kind of misconfiguration and nobody reported, that Thailand blocked wordpress.com.

    YouTube was available all the time without the www at the URL-start (a subdomain) and via different IPs. It was a simple misconfiguration, no block, no censorship.
  • Robin Wauters · 2 years ago
    Some Belgian publishers will sue anyone that dares send traffic their way, but the Belgian government doesn't block sites.

    Except maybe Mashable of course, just because you were arrogant enough to claim we'd be the next country to block YouTube :)
  • Ba · 2 years ago
    http://video.google.com/

    blocked in Thailand too
  • PC · 2 years ago
    Many of My Thai friends told me that now the Thai governmient try to close Thai people eyes and "accuse" the ex-prime minister as a very bad guy.
  • jin · 2 years ago
    vdo tube blocked in Thailand it's true. Thai
    goverment need to close
    people eye.
  • jin · 2 years ago
    vdo tube Banded in Thailand because The Coupe Goverment need to shut eye Thai people.
  • ct15 · 2 years ago
    they (thai's Junta) fear everything about ex-prime minister. in my opinion even ex-priminister fart they may be shock ha ha ha
  • Thai people · 2 years ago
    No coup
  • Alissa · 2 years ago
    Someone made a bad movie about Thai's King (May be Taksin)and upload to youtube.com . That's the reason Thailand had block youtube.com for good health psycology of thai people.
  • kewlguy · 2 years ago
    does anyone know when they will unbanned youtube in thailand? why do i care about thaksin!!am not even thai and so does many other people in thailand.. youtube is ONE place many people go to for music leisure, shows from their distant country... why cant they just blocked thaksins video. why must they ban it on thailand.. bollocks to that.
  • xpisit · 2 years ago
    Thai's news (TV3) say that youtube was banned because it has content improper about the king. For thai people it is a good reason.
  • naz · 2 years ago
    its all fcked up!! what im gonna do at work now!!!! stupid
  • ROB · 2 years ago
    the reason was (probably) not the prime minister thaksin. this would not be reason enough to block youtube i think (although i dont want to swear on it). there was a bad movie about the thai king. and this is something very sensitive in thailand. sensitive enough to block the whole website.
  • kewlguy · 2 years ago
    if it was the king than they could have just request youtube to block the user who upload the video not the entire site!!geez..
  • Chooga · 2 years ago
    Thailand SUCKS ...what do the government think they are..... this is a free country YOUTUBE will not cause murders or any criminal acts .. why are you closing it down is it because your not up to technology of holding so many people on the internet..... i thought you liked calling yourselves "advanced".... i dont see how your country can be advanced if your not letting your people the right to use certain pages on the internet .. this is no different from communism.
  • Sa · 2 years ago
    Only Thai could understand why we love our king.

    BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand on Wednesday blocked the popular video-sharing website YouTube after it carried a clip seen as insulting the country's revered king, a government official said.
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    Vissanu Meeyoo, spokesman at Thailand's communications ministry, said they had asked YouTube to remove a video clip considered offensive to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, but no action had been taken.

    "We have been blocking the website since this morning, after we found that it was very insulting to His Majesty the King," Vissanu told AFP.

    "We have asked YouTube to remove the clip, but we have had no cooperation. If they remove the clip, we will consider lifting the ban," he added.

    The move comes a week after Thailand jailed a Swiss citizen for 10 years for insulting the king by vandalising his portraits during a drunken spree.

    The 44-second YouTube clip shows images of the king, crudely altered on a graphics program, which flash on the screen to the tune of the Thai national anthem.

    One image shows the monarch next to a photograph of feet, which are considered the lowest part of the body in Buddhism. Such juxtaposition would be hugely offensive in Thailand, a mainly Buddhist country.

    The profile of the YouTube user who posted the clip lists his location as the United States. YouTube is owned by Internet giant Google, and has a monthly audience of more than 70 million viewers.

    Thailand's king, almost universally adored by Thais, is the world's longest-reigning monarch, and one of the few who is still protected by tough laws that prohibit any insult to the royal family.

    Portraits of the monarch, who will be 80 this December, hang in every public building and shrines to him dot the sidewalks in major cities.

    Oliver Jufer, 57, of Switzerland, pleaded guilty to five counts of lese majeste -- the crime of offending the dignity of a sovereign -- last Thursday for defacing several portraits of the king in the northern city of Chiang Mai.

    The nation's censors routinely block websites that contain foreign news reports or online discussions about the monarchy. Foreign books and movies seen as critical of the king are also banned here.

    Vissanu said the information ministry was considering taking action against other websites that carried links to the video clip.
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    Oliver Jufer, 57, of Switzerland SEND HIME TO JAIL LIFETIME.
  • Nadine · 2 years ago
    Ok i live in thailand.
    Its been blocked because someone posted something about the king, that the thai government didnt agree with - -. Not because of Thaksin and CNN, they would of blocked CNN not Youtube.

    i recon china
  • Victor · 2 years ago
    I'm really disappointed that the government closed youtube. Now I live in Thailand, but I'm still interested about my home country. I could see the news, listen to music, youtube is not so bad, it doesn't have pornography. I understand that His Majesty the King was insulted, what is bad! But please don't block the hole site. Try to block just the video and find that user. To block the whole site is not a smart decision. Thailand's image is getting worse and worse and this way of dealing with the problems causes the impression that Thailand slips to a totalitarian regime.
  • a thai person · 2 years ago
    just to be clear, the web was block becuase someone post a video that is very offensive to thai people. The video has the image of the king of thailand with a women'd feet picture on his head. The king is untouchable in thailand.if u point to someone with your feet is consider very rude, not to mention putting it over the picture of the king. This is not about politics, well not entirely. The right to speak and express is an important thing but i think one should be consider of others believes as well. It's a kind of respect, you know.
  • BBK14 · 2 years ago
    I love the King of Thailand 'cause He made everything for people in Thailand to have good life
  • typical!!! · 2 years ago
    TYPICAL!!! a military dictator government blocks a cool website in thailand.
    what happned to free speach and individuals rights?
    how can thailand ever expect to become a free country when its government is a dictatorship adn blcoks freedom of peoples opinions?
  • CJ · 2 years ago
    Noone will understand if you are not Thai people!!! It's very give our feeling bad when we see the video on You Tube like that.. some kind of people without education made it.. I am feeling so bad why he have made that video! Anyway I LOVE THAILAND AND THE KING.
  • Serious · 2 years ago
    Please be honest YouTube. If you want to give the information about this action, you better have the facts to suppor it. First, it's not true that YouTube blocked in Thailand because of Thai ex-piminister. Second, it's blocked because of lese majeste Thai's king. Third, don't judge the whole world based on your narrow perspective. The world is not moved because just only one culture. I beg you to be open to see how different cultures we are sharing in the world. I, a Thai girl living in the U.S., hope that you'd respect Thai's attitde and beliefs as same as I'm doing to yours.
  • Micah Sittig · 2 years ago
    Soooo... any links to the offensive video? I remember favoriting it about a week ago but it seems to have disappeared from my favorites list.
  • Serious · 2 years ago
    The reason that Thai's government has not blocked just only the link is because they had been asking YouTube to remove it for million times. But YouTube seemed to not care about this issue at all. So Thai's government has to give them a warning. If YouTube didn't respect us, so that it's useless to respect them either. OK? Hope you understand, but if you don't. I DONT CARE.
  • Serious · 2 years ago
    Hey! One more thing. YouTube. Listen. Don't you think to reconsider yourself instead of playing joke that which country will be the next to order ban YouTube. You really don't think see yourself, YouTube? How many countries that have struggle with your site. I'll tell you. Your business is growing and has been stepping into global marketing which means you deal with different cultures. See a good example in Coca Cola. Its mission is to compromise with global and they do very good and professional. So that Coke has still been in global market for over decades. But if you don't want to expand your market globally. That's fine.
  • Lee Zong Eun 이종은 · 2 years ago
    Well, I'm a Thai girl and really wanna clear it that the king of Thailand IS NOT THAKSIN! Thaksin is just EX-prime minister and now mostly of Thai people hate him because of his corruption..

    Well, the name of Thai King is Bhumibol Adulyadetch, this is his picture > http://www.nzstudyth.com/images/thai_king.gif
  • one thai · 2 years ago
    Let' me explain the difference between culture.

    First, the lese majesty law is NOT published by the king. This law was made about 200 years ago. Currently the reason that this law was NOT cancelled, is that Thai people DESIRES that law to be kept remaining. ==> The reason to support is that the King has done so much of good things to support Thailand to become better and better.
    Once in his birthday in 1995, he said that the one who cannot be criticised is not human, and sometime he should be ciriticised so that he know what he does wrong.

    THAI PEOPLE RESPECT THE KING, because HE IS THE IMPORTANT FIGURE IN THEIR LIFE and THEY COULD NOT STAND WHEN SOMEONE HURT WHO THEY LOVE.

    I thing this should make it clearer.
  • outraged · 2 years ago
    I really the government should jus have blocked the offensive video, not the whole site! there are many members in thailand who can't answer some important emails on youtube or things like that. The government says they are 'closing the eyes' of thai people but they are also inconviniencing (spl) them.
  • dgfg · 2 years ago
    fck the person who made that vid. now i cant answer all my fan mail...
  • thai · 2 years ago
    this is just a message to foreigners. Some ppl in other countries might think that Thaksin is the good guy who fled from thailand, because the government was forcing thai ppl to vote against him. Well this is not true! Thaksin is corrupt and cheated the country he served! This is the words from a Thai person's...typing hands
  • jack · 2 years ago
    I think you are blind and dumb. Every politician corrupt the country, but who give the most to the country that what is count. Idiot do you think dictorship just like military rule with out election is the right thing to do. You just one of the guy that get brain wash from the media in thailand. You just need to have some brain and get it working.
  • Not Thai · 2 years ago
    I'm not Thai but I leave in Thailand. I think the main issue here is respect. Plus the government asked YouTube to remove the clip which they did not, so it is only fair that they block the site, c'mon...is it really that hard to remove a clip??? The King is respected and loved by all Thai people, not only Thai people actually, how would you feel if someone takes a picture of your dad, mom or gf/bf and alter it into something disgusting? Well I guess you're gonna get pissed off as well and you wanna kick the a#$ of the one who did it, right? This move is purely NOT political...it's not that hard to understand. Why don't you guys visit Thailand and see by yourself.
  • Eddie Fisher · 2 years ago
    Thailand proclaim to love their King, and them claim they are unanimous in that love. So, why do they need the Lese Majeste law?
  • Beaver · 2 years ago
    to the Typical!!!

    It's doesn't matter about the freedom of opinions,or now, Thailand are governed by junta.
    We, Thais,'re not shut our eyes for worldwide infos from the Junta.

    The point that is unacceptable for Thai people is Youtube declined to remove an improper clip of the ridiculed images of our king, even be requested repeatedly from Thai ICT's minstry many times.

    By the Thai law, if anyone criticize publicly to the king and royal family, that person will be send to the jail.

    As a Thai, I'm also a Youtube fan. I love Youtube as a great edu-entertainment video-sharing site. But, Youtube, should consider and care more about sensitive-topic clips for people from other countries

    You can ridicule our prime minister or whatever person on Youtube. 2 Things that are a taboo is our king and Buddhism.
    Please understand.
  • Eddie Fisher · 2 years ago
    Lese Majeste in Thailand is a joke, as in the case of the Swiss man who when under the influence of drink paint sprayed pictures of the king, and got ten years in prison for his trouble. Only an act of disrespect is not enough to convict on lese majest.Then there is the case of ex Prime Minister Taksin who has committed lese majeste on many occasions, even on the radio, and he has not been charged. It's all show.
  • Isara · 2 years ago
    They should block only that clip, so idiot to block whole website. This goverment have done fuczing many things. im waiting Taksin comes back to claim his right.
  • Thai in BKK · 2 years ago
    I'm Thai , hate this goverment ,they're destroying everything that Thaksin made it, everything that very useful for people in up country. Goverment's trying to accuse Thaksin in corruption and killing in south but no evidence that why most thai people still loving Thaksin and hate Sondhi, Surayuth and Prem. Every thai people in every place in thailand is wating Thaksin to come back and kick the thieft out
  • one thai · 2 years ago
    I’m Thai , hate this goverment ,they’re destroying everything that Thaksin made it, everything that very useful for people in up country. Goverment’s trying to accuse Thaksin in corruption and killing in south but no evidence that why most thai people still loving Thaksin and hate Sondhi, Surayuth and Prem. Every thai people in every place in thailand is wating Thaksin to come back and kick the thieft out
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    This is stupid and ww already know that Thaksin is corrupt. You love Thaksin because he gives so much to you. You think he will benefit us, but you are wrong. Everyone is waiting for Thaksin to come back because then he will be at the court to receive the punishment from his wrong doing things.

    Also to Eddie Fisher, the reason that Thaksin is not punished by the lese majesty law - is because there are a lot of people support him (because they get benefit from Thaksin).

    Also the lese majesty law is remained there to prevent someone from hurting the one which most Thai people love.
  • jack · 2 years ago
    you are the most stupid people to support military government. Tell me which politician in thailand is not corrupt. You have to look at what politician give back to the country. I think you are just plain stupid and brain wash. I think you should go back to the dinosour days.
  • one thai · 2 years ago
    O' also the reason to block the whole website is easy.
    As most of you see, even the very first video clip was removed. There are still lots of new ones, the SAME CLIP but DIFFERENT USER. Also there are so many paths to access a clip.

    Thai junta govt don't want Thai people to see it because the govt don't want to hurt other Thai people who still don't know about this.

    Actually, there are lots of people who know about this, is currently cursing the one who made this clip. It's the different of culture, and I think it is very difficult to make foreigner understand this difference in culture.

    Please respect us.
  • Don Malherek · 2 years ago
    The King and his royal family deserve the upmost respect. He and his have served thailand and the world. I feel sad for his majesty as he has always helped the thai people and the world at large. I am ashamed for the people that post such things on the internet. May they have a bad death. LONG LIVE THE KING!
  • pae · 2 years ago
    please..you are not Thai

    You won't understand our feeling.
    you don't know how much we love our King

    whoever posted that Clip
    i curse him to death,not only me but everyone in thai too

    i saw a lot of people immediately cry when sawing that clip.Me too,of cause

    (-/\-)
  • Don Malherek · 2 years ago
    I hope that all people Thai and farang denounce this abasment of His Majesty. He is one of the world's greatrestest leaders. Not just my opion but that of the UN when they bestoed on HMK the honor recently.
  • John · 2 years ago
    I lived in Thailand for many years. I respect Thailand's decision to ban offensive content. I love the King of Thailand and have never met any Thai native who does not love him. Imagine if I had a huge billboard on my front lawn displaying hardcore pornography. Is that free speech?
  • one thai · 2 years ago
    I agree.
    The freedom of speech must come with RESPONSIBILITY and RESPECT TO OTHERS (including individual, society, culture, and religion).
  • I Defend Thailand · 2 years ago
    You people....what do you know...about loyalty? WE ARE LOYAL TO THAILAND, OUR KING, BECAUSE WE RESPECT AND LOVE HIM. WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, WE SIMPLY CHOOSE NOT TO USE IT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE. HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS IS A DICTATORSHIP? And another thing, the current prime minister of the country has nothing to do with this matter. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, SOMEONE DARED TO THROW DIRT AT THE VERY HEART OF THE PEOPLE OF THAILAND. THE KING HAS NO REAL POWER POLITICALY AND IN THE MILITARY, BUT WE LISTEN! "LISTEN"!! WE ARE THE RULING POWER, THE PEOPLE IS THE POWER OF THAILAND. IT IS A DEMOCRACY (CURRENTLY RUN BY A MILITARY GOVERNMENT...) AND WE CAN CHOOSE REVOLUTION, REBELLION, RIOTING IF WE WANT. But we don't. WE ARE THAI. We listen to the voice of the people, and the King only. You take our King and destroy his image, then I swear, whether in this life or the next, I will end your world.
  • Kristine · 2 years ago
    It will never be blocked in the Philippines. Our government is ridiculous enough. =)
  • Krit · 2 years ago
    the government asked YouTube to remove the clip which they did not, so they block the site, c’mon…is it really that hard to remove a clip???

    I agree with this opinion.
  • Dena Renu · 2 years ago
    I tried to go on You Tube to put my positive videos of Thailand up. I have absolutely no disrespect today, for Thailand's military government! I do love the king, but I don't need You Tube to know the truth about the present government, excluding the monarchy. Interesting, the present prime minister is able to obtain public land illegally and put his mansion on it. Worst thing of all, he is still lying about it! THAILAND MADE A HUGE MISTAKE KICKING OUT TAKSIN. Where is the Thailand's money now? I would check the current government's pockets for that. TAKSIN GAVE THAILAND TOO MUCH, and they tried slapping him the face. I hope Thailand wakes up and does something about the economy and especially the government before it's too late. With no money, censorship, and no personal decision, I see communism in the near future.
  • one thai · 2 years ago
    We Thailand have our own way to live, not worry whether we have little money. We are afraid of economy has gone too good. We don't want everything turned to be some kind of investment or sth. AND A LOT OF CITIZEN IS HAPPY WHEN THAKSIN WAS KICKED OUT. You might have to look back at some website that report about the military coup in Sept 2006, you will see Thai people want to take the photograph with the army. It is strange but people LIKE IT.

    I don't defend that this govt is not corrupt. It is difficult for all the countries to get rid of corruption, right? Actually I don't like this govt much (they don't know how to do work), but they are still far better than Thaksin (who sell the sattelite to another country, and tried to avoid paying the $1b tax to the govt).
  • s · 2 years ago
    PC
    March 13, 2007Many of My Thai friends told me that now the Thai governmient try to close Thai people eyes and “accuse” the ex-prime minister as a very bad guy.
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    I heard that he did corruption. So he is bad.
  • s · 2 years ago
    Youtube has bad response in deletion the problem clips.

    Turkey / Italy also ban youtube isn't it?

    Youtube always keep problem clips. I think they use bad clips to generate traffic.

    They shouldn't.
  • eddie fisher · 2 years ago
    What is all this cursing from people who say they are Thai, and love their KING.
    The King himself has said that people should not take this law so seriously.ARE YOU LISTENING TO HIM?????
  • eddie fisher · 2 years ago
    What is all this cursing from people who say they are Thai, and love their KING.
    The King himself has said that people should not take this law so seriously.ARE YOU LISTENING TO HIM????? FROM THE BLOCKERS, NO I HAVEN;T ALREADY SAID THAT
  • one thai · 2 years ago
    To Eddie Fisher. If what you are talking about is about that Swedish who've got 10 years in prison. When we mean not to take the lese majesty law so seriously : it does not mean to cancel that law. The law is now being published and was not yet cancelled. So the police should obey the instructions said in the law.

    His act of against the lese majesty is clear and 'everyone' agrees to have him punished.
  • Thai lover · 2 years ago
    I say Singapore! What was commented abt the King of Thailand is definitely not acceptable when the King is so well respected and loved. I thank YouTube for assisting the Thai government in blocking the sites that spreads bad images of the King. Good job YouTube!!!!!
  • Eddie Fisher · 2 years ago
    To the one Thai who says that the lese Majeste law is still a law and not cancelled. Does that mean you only prosecute Nationals from other countries? If not why haven't your poloce charged TAKSIN for lease majeste. His lease majeste is also very clear. Does every one in Thailand also agree he should be punished?????
  • Eddie Fisher · 2 years ago
    To the Democratic Party in Thailand, who has suggested that the person who posted the clip on youtube should br tracked down and punished. How do they imagine that could happen? Do they believe that other countries in the world care about lese mageste in Thailand and that it would cover the acts of people in other countries. Get a life someone.
  • ++++++ · 2 years ago
    fuck that who make the video of the king......
  • ++++++ · 2 years ago
    i can stand it........
    why the king he need to make that?bullshit........
  • kewlguy · 2 years ago
    "more internet blocks are needed to protect Thai people" its a letter by Klai Muk dated on the april 7. HA...... its more like they didt want any internet access to THE NATION! like how can they blocked sites just because its bad for the people?? shouldnt they educate them instead of Stopping sites which is deem bad for them.. Thailand was known for censoring sites which is bad for the people. HEAR this.. even ciggerate or beer labels were blurred on television shows.. doesnt that make the PEOPLE of thailand even more curious! gosh! total stupidity.
  • One Thai people · 2 years ago
    Please don't make bad thing to my King.
    Please...
  • Sunisa · 2 years ago
    Most thais belive Sondhi Lim is behind that clip in order to discredit ousted prime minister Thaksin
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  • Libra · 2 years ago
    To one thai

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    This is stupid and ww already know that Thaksin is corrupt. You love Thaksin because he gives so much to you. You think he will benefit us, but you are wrong. Everyone is waiting for Thaksin to come back because then he will be at the court to receive the punishment from his wrong doing things.

    Also to Eddie Fisher, the reason that Thaksin is not punished by the lese majesty law - is because there are a lot of people support him (because they get benefit from Thaksin).

    Also the lese majesty law is remained there to prevent someone from hurting the one which most Thai people love.
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    You are also the one who bark as you know everything about Thai Government.

    Can you say that "There is the government that never currupt in Thailand"?
    Everybody care about "benefit" you know!?, but If he develop the country, it is good even he do the curruption

    I don't care that Thaksin will come back or not but I hate this government because they destroy my country.

    You said that he loves him because Thaksin gave much to him, but he was right! You are not the one who will die soon because this government's doing, so you don't understant their feeling like you say that the one who not Thai people won't understant Thai people's feeling.

    The last thing is...
    Can you answer these questions
    - Why they destroyed everything that Thaksin made even it is good or not?[And don't care that some people will be die?]
    - Why the government still can't answer to the word that why they kicked Thaksin out of country?[They said only he currupt???]
    - You said that you are the one who are waiting Thaksin come back to get his punishment but I know that he want to come back but the government said "No", Why???

    There are still more question to ask you but only these few questions, I know you can't answer clearly.

    For these reason,please don't bark as a dog if you don't know the truth.
  • im thai · 2 years ago
    why another country to block that website, no reason + very stupid.it's about just some ppl do rude on the video, why all ??????? ICT sucks really !
  • lester · 2 years ago
    No, it's not about ex-prime minister Thaksin why youtube is banned in Thailand.. it's because of the inexcusably disgraceful videos that some people made.. they made fun of the King of Thailand.. The king of thailand is a very respectable and honorable person! why would somebody make fun of him? the government of thailand tried to ask youtube to delete the videos but youtube did not comply! so thailand decided to ban youtube website!
  • Penguin · 2 years ago
    "No reason was given for the block"

    I believe it's because there's a video with a picture of the king with googly eyes.
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    USA is next.... maybe not because they are still confused with their own "Freedom of Speech". Yeah...Thailand blocked yourtube because this yourtube let a jackass put a video offending the King of Thailand who is the father figure and the symbol of the kingdom of thailand.. in turn offending 60 million of Thai people...I'll tell you how confused American are... American have this law about flag burning saying it is about symbolic expression... but they make shorts and underwears out of it... touchy is it?. but that is their own business the rest of world might laugh but respect however it seems like whenever they want they close one eye on their own freedom of speech or they are simply and totally confused. The problem is when other culture talk about the offense to their symbolic expression .. then American like to say it is a violation of freedom of speech to them.. Are American ready to step into world community or they are just kidding themselves... or they are just as confused as their president!
  • Frank · 2 years ago
    The reason Thailand blocked youtube (and rightly) is that some jokers put a short film on youtube making fun of their King. I can't believe you idiots didn't know that!......what? do you sit and watch youtube and wank all day!. If youtube are going to let anything on their website then they get what they deserve........making fun of the Thai King is the worst thing anyone could do......a little bit like calling your christian god a poofter!
  • Juba · 2 years ago
    you can add Laos in your list cause i live there and we can't have acces to youtube there. and that at the same time as Thailand.
    does it mean that Laos depends on thailand to have acces to the net???

    if someone have an answer please let me know :)
  • chai400 · 2 years ago
    Some povider internet can access youturb.com but me can't. before can go with www.unblockict.com but now can't.
    Who do you know the method to open web pls tell me. I like to enjoy video clip. Thanks.
  • Frank G Anderson · 2 years ago
    Check our latest posting online relating to why YouTube is still blocked. But why not pornography!
  • oakweb · 2 years ago
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  • angie · 2 years ago
    I remember favoriting it about a week ago but it seems to have disappeared from my favorites list.
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