Expansion of web-based censorship

Don Sambandararaksa has an interesting take on the Thai government’s continuing efforts to control access to internet sites it considers troublesome and politically dubious. It is noted that “Thailand’s Thought Police have been busy making sure that any unpleasant thoughts are quickly forgotten, or at least not echoed anywhere on the Internet, not just on web pages. It is nice to know that the newly empowered ICU Ministry can now block XML requests that are objectionable, not just web pages.” Bangkok Post, 18 February 2009: “The old fake ’404 Not Found’ routine”.

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