[1]Thailand blockpage (TOT – Telephone Organization of Thailand): This screen shot was taken by Prachatai.com [2] when access to the popular blogging platform WordPress.com has been blocked (August, 22th, 2007):“Sorry. TOT Plc., as an organization of Thai people, has restrained the access to this website as it contains content, text, and/or picture that is unappropriated which affects the mind of Thai people all over the country and cannot be accepted.”
(Source: National Blockpages Gallery [3] via Prachatai.com [2]| Global Voices Advocacy Blog [4])
On August 22th, 2007, access to wordpress.com blogging platform has been blocked [2] by TOT [5] (Telecommunication Authority) preventing Thai Internet users from accessing Thai WordPress [6] and all blogs hosted on wordpress.com [7]. “A notice has been shown when trying to access any WordPress page: “Sorry. TOT Plc., as an organization of Thai people, has restrained the access to this website as it contains content, text, and/or picture that is unappropriated which affects the mind of Thai people all over the country and cannot be accepted.”
In a recent update, Freedom Against Censorship Thailand [8] (FACT) confirmed that “ until the evening of Friday 24 August, it is still impossible to access WordPress.com from TOT service. The symptom is unpredictable, actually, as sometimes it can be access, but sometimes cannot.”
Lats week, on August 17, 2007, the Turkish Fatih Second Civil Court of First Instance blocked access to the entire wordpress.com domain [9] after alleged libel of Turkish Islamic-creationist [10], Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya [11].
You can also download a PDF version of the Computer Crime Act and read our previous interview [14] with CJ Hinke, FACT [15] founder and coordinator, about the FACT campaign [16], the filtering situation in Thailand and its implications and consequences as a result of the new cybercrime law.
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