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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. 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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  3. 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.