Internet censorship in Thailand | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/01/2019

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00:01:51 1 History
00:07:43 2 Methods
00:11:09 3 Examples of websites blocked
00:11:19 3.1 19 September Network against Coup d'Etat
00:11:48 3.2 Southern insurgency
00:12:17 3.3 External news sites
00:12:52 3.4 Webboards and discussion forums
00:13:23 3.5 Video sharing sites
00:14:35 3.6 Websites containing lèse majesté content
00:15:52 3.7 Websites about the book iThe King Never Smiles/i
00:16:37 3.8 Wikipedia articles
00:18:00 3.9 WikiLeaks
00:18:20 3.10 Wayback Machine Internet archive
00:18:44 3.11 Aftermath of 2014 coup d'etat
00:19:43 4 Opposition to Internet censorship
00:20:35 4.1 Midnight University
00:21:11 4.2 Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT)
00:22:51 4.3 Circumvention software
00:23:44 5 Current developments
00:24:03 6 See also



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Most Internet censorship in Thailand prior to the September 2006 military coup d'état was focused on blocking pornographic websites. The following years have seen a constant stream of sometimes violent protests, regional unrest, emergency decrees, a new cybercrimes law, and an updated Internal Security Act. Year by year Internet censorship has grown, with its focus shifting to lèse majesté, national security, and political issues. By 2010, estimates put the number of websites blocked at over 110,000. In December 2011, a dedicated government operation, the Cyber Security Operation Center, was opened. Between its opening and March 2014, the Center told ISPs to block 22,599 URLs.The subsequent 2014 Thai coup d'état has led to further restrictions on Internet content in the country, using the powers of the coup's National Council for Peace and Order.Internet filtering in Thailand was classified as selective in the social, political, and Internet tools areas, and no evidence of filtering was found in the conflict/security area by the OpenNet Initiative in November 2011. Thailand is on Reporters Without Borders list of countries under surveillance in 2011.Freedom House, in 2014 awarded Thailand an overall score of 62 ("not free") (0=best, 100=worst) for Internet freedom, citing substantial political censorship and the arrests of bloggers and other online users, ranking it 52 of 65 countries. In 2013 Thailand had been rated as "partly free".