Got this from Aileen while sniffing thru her home wifi.
Thailand’s military-appointed government blocked access to on-line video-sharing Web site YouTube on Wednesday after its owner, Google Inc., declined to withdraw a video clip mocking the country’s revered monarch.
Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom told Reuters he had ordered a block of the entire site, www.youtube.com, from Thailand after the ministry’s attempts to get the offending page removed last week failed.
Read full story at MSNBC.
USA is next…. maybe not because they are still confused with their own “Freedom of Speechâ€. 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!