Thailand
ONI Blog: Over 1,203 Sites Blocked in Thailand
Over the weekend, it was reported by WikiLeaks that the secret censorship lists of Thailand's Ministroy of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) had been obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, who is the director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand.
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ONI Blog: YouTube and the rise of geolocational filtering
YouTomb, a project of the MIT Free Culture group that studies takedown notices by the video-sharing website YouTube, has identified a mechanism used by Google to restrict video content in specific countries. This appears to be the method YouTube...
ONI Blog: Thailand passes new cybercrimes law
Today the Bangkok Post reported that the Thai National Legislative Assembly (NLA) approved the Cyber Crimes Bill in a nearly unanimous vote. Nearly a year has passed since the military coup overthrowing former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and the current NLA...
ONI Blog: AFP: Thai group petitions for end to Internet censorship
The recently founded group Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) has petitioned the Thai Human Rights Commission for an end to Internet censorship.
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- Posted on 15/Nov/2006; tagged in Thailand
ONI Blog: Thai Rak Thai Party asks supporters to criticize government on website
After having its website (www.thairakthai.or.th) blocked and restored in the wake of the Thai coup, the ousted Thai Rak Thai Party is creating a blog on the site and calling on its supporters to "air their frustrations about the...
ONI Blog: Thailand: Thai Rak Thai Party Website Restored
After a day of inaccessibility on Oct. 2, the website of the Thai Rak Thai party (www.thairakthai.or.th) was back online on Oct. 3. According to Bangkok's The Nation, the restored website "plays up the resignation letter of former...
ONI Blog: Thailand: Midnight University Website Shut Down in Wake of Protest
As reported by the Bangkok newspaper The Nation, the online academic forum Midnight University (www.midnightuniv.org) was shut down by Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Ministry on September 29, one day after five Chiang Mai University scholars tore up an imitation...
ONI Blog: Thailand Imposes Media and Internet Speech Restrictions in Wake of Coup
The military junta that deposed controversial Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra earlier this week has revoked all laws in the country and issued its own vague media restrictions requiring all media outlets to self-censor. Media are required to report only...
