Thailand Bans YouTube

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."

..and...

[mapkinase]

Ministry of Information of Thailand was effectively slashdotted. Half of me says that was a plan.

This just in...

[insanemime]

The new Thiland government is quoted as saying because of all the bugs in open source software they will be installing Vista on all crucial government machines.

Mod Parent Up! (-1, Flamebait)

[paladinwannabe2]

Who needs shades of grey? With Thailand, you can put pimps pushing 8-year olds, oppressive military dictatorships, and anti-open source people together! Finally, something to hate for everyone!

Touchy

[Tx]

So am I going to get /. banned from Thailand? If I say "Hey Thailand! Your king is a doody-head!"? Will that do it?

Fucking monarchies

[i_should_be_working]

Here [google.co.uk] are assorted images of Thailand's king. Here's [thaigov.go.th] Thailand's government website. (english) [thaigov.go.th]

Let's show them what we and the Gimp think of them throwing people in prison for 10 years for vandalism.

Re:Fucking monarchies

[Anonymous Coward]

If only this were Second Life, we could let giant penisses chase him.

Re:Lots slam OSS for being useless and buggy

[NayDizz]

That's exactly what I thought. I was half expecting it to be followed up with "Oh by the way, they said your mom is fat."

Ministry of Truth???

[dasunst3r]

For some reason, Ministry of Information seems 1984-ish, so answer me this: In Thailand, do browsers also keep tabs on you too?

Time to invade Thailand!

[Anonymous Coward]

Do they have any oil we want?

Re:Now if only...

[xerxesVII]

w00t! That dress IS an outrage. She'd look even better without it.

You suppose?

[mkcmkc]

And I suppose my wife's

Okay, now we're curious:

• Does your wife have an identical twin?
• Was she wearing a bag over her head at the time?
• Do you even know what your wife looks like?

Enquiring minds must know! :-)

Re:Now if only...

[bckrispi]

They tax kiddie prostitution, don't they?

Re:You suppose?

[Chris Burke]

One thing about the boobies in Thailand, plastic surgery is incredibly cheap so the boobs tend to be of the California variety, and not the home-grown.

Bah! /me closes the travelocity.com tab opened two posts ago