Thailand to lift ban on YouTube

[ATMwalking]

Thailand to lift ban on YouTube

The Information and Communication Technology Ministry plans to ask the cabinet to waive a decree issued by the Council for National Security, earlier known as the Council for Democratic Reform, which has prohibited political websites, said ICT minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom.

The junta's decree, known as Order No. 5, which has banned political websites, will be lifted by the Surayud cabinet this week in order to make the people feel better now that the political situation has improved and a general election is to be held, he said.

The ICT minister who claimed to have banned only about 200 websites, 90 per cent of which featured pornography said that Thai-based internet users will again be allowed to access YouTube - Broadcast Yourself., the popular video-sharing website, in particular, after it had been blocked for several months.

Google, the US-based parent corporation of YouTube, had offered to see to it that any lese majeste content will be kept off that website, he added.

The ministry in early April began blocking the popular video-sharing website after it showed a sequence of video clips considered insulting to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. (TNA)

Bangkok Post

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Originally Posted by ATMwalking

'in order to make the people feel better now that the political situation has improved'

Thats encouraging ... TiT !!

[LivinLOS]

200 blocked sites !! A leaked list of 11k was found..

Many users on ThaiVisa reporting metacafe blocked today (fine for me).. Look forward to blocks being dropped.

[LivinLOS]

Its unbanning as we speak..

I can access the sub pages.. And some text comes through fine.. some thumbs.. But large parts of the page are formatting badly and the ICT logo is embedded all over it..

[ATMwalking]

still blocked for me on both connections

[LivinLOS]

Try clicking any link to an existing YT video.. The main page is still redirecting.. The sub pages are partially loading for me..

Layouts buggered.. ICT logos embedded.. But its a definite server response..

Strangely its just how IMDB was for me last week, except without the ICT logos, I was getting long page load times, screwed formatting etc.

[ATMwalking]

Nope. still full on block for me.

[LivinLOS]

YouTube - Bangla Road

Try that.. Its not working right, but thats a server response.

[ATMwalking]

Honestly, I just get the big green cyberclean.org screen on both connections.

[LivinLOS]

OK then TOT only !!!

[Hobbsy]

yup still blocked for me. hopefully not for much longer.

[dogblower]

Im able to log into my account no problem.

[Nicke]

Yes, same for me.

Originally Posted by ATMwalking

Honestly, I just get the big green cyberclean.org screen on both connections.

[IRISH JONNY]

i wish our company would lift the ban on youtube...fcuking bastards firewalled it 6 months ago !!!!!!!!!!

[dogblower]

Originally Posted by IRISH JONNY

i wish our company would lift the ban on youtube...fcuking bastards firewalled it 6 months ago !!!!!!!!!!

So did mine. It used to be that I could only access it in Thailand ... until the Thais blocked it too.

[sundancekid]

"Works" for me on TOT:

[LivinLOS]

Same as I am getting.. site images still seem to come to the block.. some thumbs in Rt hand side working..

But it is a form of server connection..

[Bello Uomo]

So you can access nudey rudey youtube clones but not youtube?

[LivinLOS]

OK well I checked this AM (thanks to a thread on TV) and it was down.. Just tried once again and its up 100% on TOT Goldcyber.

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Originally Posted by LivinLOS

YouTube - Bangla Road

Try that.. Its not working right, but thats a server response.

tried it on my silver package and it works.not blocked

[ATMwalking]

It's funny because I never really cared about it too much before it was blocked. But then you start to notice all the blogs or whatever that host a video on youtube so all we saw was an empty space. Now that I am able to play with it again, there really is a lot of stuff on there.