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Thailand Bans YouTube

Posted by Zonk on from the getting-to-be-popular dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The new government of Thailand that forced its way into power last year has banned the website YouTube after a 44 second clip was found of someone spray painting on a picture of Thailand's king. When Google refused to remove the 'offending' clip the website was redirected to a different page. This comes days after a Swiss man was jailed 10 years for spray painting on pictures of the king while drunk, and is the same government that earlier this year slammed open source software for being useless and buggy."

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  1. ..and... by mapkinase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ministry of Information of Thailand was effectively slashdotted. Half of me says that was a plan.

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  2. This just in... by insanemime · · Score: 2, Funny

    The new Thiland government is quoted as saying because of all the bugs in open source software they will be installing Vista on all crucial government machines.

  3. Mod Parent Up! (-1, Flamebait) by paladinwannabe2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who needs shades of grey? With Thailand, you can put pimps pushing 8-year olds, oppressive military dictatorships, and anti-open source people together! Finally, something to hate for everyone!

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  4. Touchy by Tx · · Score: 4, Funny

    So am I going to get /. banned from Thailand? If I say "Hey Thailand! Your king is a doody-head!"? Will that do it?

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  5. Fucking monarchies by i_should_be_working · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here are assorted images of Thailand's king. Here's Thailand's government website. (english)

    Let's show them what we and the Gimp think of them throwing people in prison for 10 years for vandalism.

    1. Re:Fucking monarchies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If only this were Second Life, we could let giant penisses chase him.

  6. Re:Lots slam OSS for being useless and buggy by NayDizz · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's exactly what I thought. I was half expecting it to be followed up with "Oh by the way, they said your mom is fat."

  7. Ministry of Truth??? by dasunst3r · · Score: 3, Funny

    For some reason, Ministry of Information seems 1984-ish, so answer me this: In Thailand, do browsers also keep tabs on you too?

  8. Time to invade Thailand! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do they have any oil we want?

  9. Re:Now if only... by xerxesVII · · Score: 2, Funny

    w00t! That dress IS an outrage. She'd look even better without it.

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  10. You suppose? by mkcmkc · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I suppose my wife's

    Okay, now we're curious:

    • Does your wife have an identical twin?
    • Was she wearing a bag over her head at the time?
    • Do you even know what your wife looks like?

    Enquiring minds must know! :-)

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    1. Re:You suppose? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

      One thing about the boobies in Thailand, plastic surgery is incredibly cheap so the boobs tend to be of the California variety, and not the home-grown.

      Bah! /me closes the travelocity.com tab opened two posts ago

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  11. Re:Now if only... by bckrispi · · Score: 2, Funny

    They tax kiddie prostitution, don't they?

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