Om siffran en halv miljon stämmer så skulle 5% bli 25000 som alltså är censurerade av politiska orsaker.
Du sitter ju i Thailand så Du kan roa att leta av sidor som är censurerade av politiska skäl. Jag har gjort det några gånger och efter flitigt letande hittat flera stycken.
Någon statistik på spärrade sidor har inte presenterats på senare tid, men de hundratals frivilliga som har haft till jobb att leta efter olämpligt innehåll på nätet har endast haft till uppdrag att leta efter "förtal" av kungahuset.
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Hur soker du efter websidor? Googlar du på Thai? Mest nyfiken eftersom jag utgått från att de inte är så lätta att hitta.
Nedan lite från Wiki. Blir lite lurigt när de buntar ihop politisk och lese masjestet-censur under samma kategori.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Thailand
Internet censorship is conducted by the Royal Thai Police, the Communications Authority of Thailand, and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT).[4]
Prior to the September 2006 military coup d'état, 34,411 web sites were blocked by all three government agencies. The cited reasons were as follows:[5]
60% pornography,
14% sale of sex equipment,
11% threats to national security, which includes criticisms of the king, government or military,
8% illegal products and services,
4% copyright infringement,
2% illegal gambling, and
1% other.
Although the great majority of censored sites were pornographic, the list also includes anonymous proxy servers which circumvent Web-blocking and provide access to Internet gambling sites. Pornography and gambling are specifically illegal in Thailand.
On 19 September 2006, the Thai military staged a bloodless coup d'état against the government of elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The fifth official order signed by coup leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin on 20 September, the first day following the coup, was to enforce Web censorship and appoint Dr. Sitthichai Pokaiudom, “The Official Censor of the Military Coup”, Minister to head MICT.[6]
In October 2006, MICT blocked 2475 websites by "request"; by 11 January 2007, this number had risen to 13,435 websites, a jump of more than 500%. This brought the total number of websites blocked to more than 45,000.[6] All websites are blocked in secret and the criteria for censorship has never been made public by government. However, the MICT blocklist must be made available to ISPs to block.
With the enactment of a new cybercrimes law in June 2007 (Act on Computer Crime B.E. 2550), Thailand became one of the only countries in Asia to require its government to obtain court authorization to block Internet content (section 20).[7] Illegal activities under the Thai cybercrimes law include inputting obscene data, forged or false data likely to cause injury to another person, the public or national security; and data which constitutes a criminal offense relating to national security or terrorism (section 14). Criminal liability is extended to ISPs that intentionally support or consent to these illegal activities (section 15). The law creates civil and criminal liability for individuals who publicly post photographs of others that are “likely to” impair their reputation or expose them to shame, public hatred or contempt (section 16).
Ongoing political turmoil led prime minister Samak Sundaravej to declare a state of emergency on 2 September 2008. Upon his declaration, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology ordered ISPs to immediately shut down around 400 Web sites and block 1,200 more, all alleged to disturb social order or endanger national security.[8]
ICT Minister Mun Patanotai announced on 29 October 2008, plans to introduce an internet gateway system costing up to 500 million baht to block sites considered to promote lèse majesté materials. The Minister said the system could also be used to block other websites considered inappropriate, such as those of terrorist groups or selling pornography, but the ministry will focus first on websites with content deemed insulting to the Thai monarchy.[9]
A state of emergency was imposed on 7 April and lifted on 22 December 2010, but the Internal Security Act (ISA) which provides Thailand’s leaders broad powers without having to resort to judicial procedures remains in place.[10][11]
URLs blocked by court order:[12]
Year Court
Orders Blocked
URLs
2007 1 2
2008 13 2071
2009 64 28,705
2010 39 43,908
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Total 117 74,686
It is estimated that tens of thousands of additional URLs are blocked without court orders through informal requests or under the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations.
Reasons for blocking:[12]
URLs
blocked
Percent
Reason
57,330 77% lèse majesté content (content that defames, insults, threatens, or is unflattering to the King, includes national security and some political issues)
16,740 22% pornographic content
357 <1% information about abortion
246 <1% content related to gambling
Estimates put the number of websites blocked at over 110,000 and growing in 2010.[13]