Thailand reauthorize YouTube after 4 months of prohibition 2007-08-31
In accordance with what the country had required four months ago, the Web site will not allow more from now on that videos enforced the laws inhabitants of Thailand are published on Internet. Thus, the offensive clips towards king Bhumibol Adulyadej, figure emblematic for the majority of the residents, will not have any more right of abode on the video platform.
Last on April 4, Thailand - which regards as illegal the publication of such clips - had indeed blocked the access to YouTube in front of the not-reaction of Google. One of the offensive videos put in scene the monarch disguised in monkey and thus turned in derision its image with for musical bottom the anthem of the country.
Sitthichai Phokai-Udom, the Minister for the Communication and Information, declared that the government inhabitant of Thailand had raised this prohibition, but had not provided more details. In a maintenance granted to the newspaper The Nation relayed by AP, it however revealed that YouTube had agreed to prevent future publications restriction the laws inhabitants of Thailand and that the gate had finished a program which was going to make it possible to block the sensitive videos.
In May, Phokai-Udom had even put forward the idea to prosecute Google for crime of lese-majesty, which is punished by 15 years of maximum prison. Thailand does not joke with those which make fun of the king: in March, Switzerland had been condemned to 10 years of prison to have ridiculed Bhumibol Adulyadej on posters the representative. It had been Gracie then
