http://www.CALTRADE.com/news An exploration of California's place in the world Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://www.CALTRADE.com/news/industries/media-and-entertainment/youtube-censored-in-thailand/ http://www.CALTRADE.com/news/industries/media-and-entertainment/youtube-censored-in-thailand/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:04:00 +0000 editor http://www.CALTRADE.com/news/2007/04/05/youtube-censored-in-thailand/ “The military-appointed government of Thailand has blocked access to YouTube and several other Internet sites in a crackdown on material seen as denigrating the country’s monarch, officials said Wednesday. ‘We have blocked YouTube because it contains a video insulting to our king,’ Winai Yoosabai, head of the censorship unit at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, said. The Thai ban on YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, came after YouTube’s owner, Google, refused to remove the video clip, the communications minister, Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, said.”

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