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More Websites Offending Thai Monarchy Blocked
An anonymous reader writes "Thailand is ramping up their media wide censorship of anything that remotely offends Thai royalty. In the last three weeks, another 2,300 websites have been blocked. Another ~4,000 are soon expected.
And not just websites, but books as well as the Economist have been blocked. And anyone caught publishing such material, including foreigners, will get 3 to 15 years in a Thai prison. You don't want to be in a Thai prison!"
Yeah, every now and then someone asks me if I want to go to Thailand or some other oppressive nation and I'm like "uhhh, no thanks!" and they're completely baffled as to what I could possibly have against leaving my nice little democratic country where attempting to bribe an officer of the law get you arrested rather than be expected.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Way to go, your majesty! Take out those offending web pages! Don't mind the fact that your #1 industry is the underage sex trade, by all means, wax The Economist!
Let's stop dilly-dallying and just change "-1: Overrated" to "-1: Disagree" or "-1: Doesn't Subscribe to Groupthink".
You haven't been paying attention to CNN's self-censorship during Obama's campaign, have you?
Thailand = Zimbabwe II
maybe even worse? And until this all started I thought it was an interesting Asian country. Off my list of travels, for good.
Hang on, some huge percentage of Hard Drives and other electronics are assembled in ___. Here we go again, reading labels before we buy.
PS - I suspect if the parent post is traced, yes, avoid Thailand dear author.