The Thai government regulates access to YouTube because the King was insulted

The BBC and Reuters reported, Thailand Ministry of Information and Communication Technology posted a movie insulting King Bhumibol of Thailand on YouTube, the movie itself has been completely deleted but comments and some images are still posted It seems that April 4th we have blocked access to YouTube from Thailand.

Currently, the Thai government and YouTube are in talks, and it seems that this movie submission itself corresponds to "innocent sin" in Thailand, and criticism of the royalty is subject to criminal punishment. By the way, in case of conviction it is prison sentence of up to 15 years.

By the way, although the movie itself is fearfully deleted by the contributor voluntarily, the Thai government has asked YouTube to delete before this, and on that occasion the YouTube side said "In the case of President Bush of the United States The video concerning Thai king does not fall under deletion, although video is being posted because of terrible content, but it is not deleted, "City Qi Information and Telecommunications Technical Committee condemned correspondence of YouTube , He said he did not take into consideration the feelings of the people of Thailand, he took retaliation measures to block access from the country.

Details are as follows.
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The movie was posted on March 29th by a user called "paddidda", and the length is 44 seconds. It seems that there were about 50,000 accesses from about 40,000. A part of the screenshot when the following still existed.


It seems that it was originally at this address.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRyffEbJ50

In addition, Thailand was not the first country to block access to YouTube,Access blocking in Brazil in January 2007Eating,From Turkey also regulated access to YouTube in March 2007I have done it. As long as it is in the way, this case is the third case.