Junta clamps down on websites

The year may well be the 21st century's version of George Orwell's "1984" for Thailand as the number of blocked websites since the coup has increased by 500 per cent as of January, according to the campaign group Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT).

The "blocklist", numbering 13,435 websites as of January 11, compared to 2,475 in October 13 last year, "shows a frightening increase in thought control and abrogation of civil liberties and human rights in Thailand," FACT said in a recent statement. "2007 may well be the 21st century's "1984" in Thailand."

Some anti-coup websites such as 19sep.org have been blocked six time since the coup took place last September.

"In the wake of September 19, many Thai Web discussion boards were blocked or ordered to self-censor, stifling freedom of expression and freedom of association," FACT stated.

It added that no identification of the blocked websites has been disclosed to the public nor do the involved government agencies disclose what criteria they use to block some sites.

The Nation

It's reported on a lot of forums and blogs that  Youtube has been blocked since March 9 on many ISPs in Thailand.

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And I wondered why the IP address of my connection had changed from AIS-GPRS-Internet to Loxley (satellite). Looks like some ISPs find ways around the blocking attempts. Youtube is freely accessible for me.

Others who cannot access can try triggering a redirect by omitting the www in the url.
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I can access http://www.youtube.com/ fine. No re-directs here

Where was it being reported that the page was being re-directed?

admin Wrote:I can access http://www.youtube.com/ fine. No re-directs here

Where was it being reported that the page was being re-directed?

http://www.maxasia.net/2007/03/11/when-y...-thailand/

http://mashable.com/2007/03/11/youtube-b...nthailand/

http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/88429.html#id88429

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/0...-thailand/

with more references
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