*The development of the internet and satellite television have substantially undermined the government's power to censor broadcast television. For instance, on September 2005, the MCOT (government-owned broadcaster of Channel 9), after discussions with King Bhumibol Adulyadej's principal private secretary, Asa Sarasin, cancelled Sondhi Limthongkul's Muangthai Rai Sapda ("Thailand Weekly") show for inappropriate references to the King and monarchy. Sondhi claimed that he was dropped for criticism of the Thaksin administration. He subsequently started broadcasting the talkshow via satellite and webcasting it on the website of one of his newspapers, doubling his daily number of site visitors.    

 ==Community radio censorship section deleted; why?== 
 *, please explain yourself.  Why was the entire section on community radio censorship deleted, without any discussion?  Community radio is a broadcast media (even if it only have a 15km broadcast radius).  There have been several public accussations that the government is trying to censor it.  The topic is controversial.  Multiple perspectives (the government and the broadcasters) are represented. Several citations are given.  I really don't see why this section was deleted...