Blocked web Sites in Thailand
Are you seeing MICT in strange places? The last weeks I see the MICT w3.mict.go.th in my browser window when I leave places like Hotmail and other normal domains. So why on earth is MICT (Ministry of information and communication technology) doing spying in normal websites? Is it not enough that the block tens of…
How much privacy do you really have when you surf the internet in Thailand? After some website we checked went very slow we decided to check Yahoo, CNN, Facebook, YouTube and few other sites and all have the same thing you can see on the bottom of this video below. MICT is inside your internet…
Distinguish website blocking from outages and security warnings in Thailand, with careful checks, legal context and responsible reporting.
I got hold of the blocked sites in Thailand. It is not really a secret but I have not seen the new once. Most of the sites from 2007 are unblocked already since it is not really a risk to the countries security it is more adult material. The last government was on a moral…
We got an email from one of our readers in Pattaya. He wrote “my connection to adult friend finder website was blocked for 1 hour by the Korean Police website you heard of anything like this?” We checked the website in questions and could find that some kid of block was in place if you…
The Thai government have put over 50 million to good use and bought software to block website that insults the monarch in Thailand. I love the King of Thailand but I do not think blocking 2300 websites is the right way to go since you can open a website a second if you want. If…
Harry Nicolaides is a mystery for me, if I had not glanced old Bangkok post today I would not have seen the article. According to Bangkok Post Harry Nicolaides is denied bail for offending His Royal Higher the King of Thailand and his family. Arrested on the 31 of August this year at the airport…
The internet must be free for anyone to look at. I deeply respect His Royal Highness The King Of Thailand but to build a 500 million THB firewall is not the way to honor him. The firewall should block websites that can not be named (that sounds like Harry Potter). I think if we do…