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I think Thailand will soon realise that trying to censor the technological Hydra of the Internet is going to be a very tough exercise, just as Kerajaan Malaysia is going to find out as well.
Blocking YouTube's entire content is in the long run a self-injuring exercise.
Malaysia may emulate Thailand by blocking the entire Blogspot.com or Wordpress.com domain, again that's just going to attract all the wrong attention to the country.

Honestly I find those video posters very disrespectful.

these americans think other people have to follow their ideology of irresponsible freedom of speech and they even equate the king to their president bush.... really naive and rude indeed.

However, is Thailand going to ban the whole YouTube just because of a few videos? and the whole country people suffer because of this?

so if these naugthy monkeys post pictures of insult on Myspace, dailymotion, blogspot, forums, etc. etc.
is the thai government going to ban the whole internet? LOL

it is like our government banning blogspot, wordpress etc.

get real !

In Reply to Life Feel comment: these Americans think other people have to follow their ideology of irresponsible freedom of speech and they even equate the king to their president bush.... really naive and rude indeed”

I see no reason why you need to “attack” Americans per se’, first several of the posts on You Tube were from Thai nationals from inside Thailand. That is not to say that no Americans made posts either, but also could have been Americans, Canadians, Malaysians, etc. You made a statement without basis to support that is were Americans. Also as for Americans believing everyone in the world should follow their ideology of irresponsible free speech again has no merit here. First You Tube is an American site owned by an American company thus of course it will follow Americans point of view. Secondly you claim Americans freedom of speech is irresponsible, however do keep in mind that the free speech in America, Canada, the UK, most of Europe is what has allowed the people of those countries to keep their government in check and balance, unlike very much in Malaysia where the government is at will to do what it wants period. There have been too many cases in Malaysia where free speech was not found when ever someone pointed something the government did wrong, far too many times where people made silent. So yes I personally think that the west’s idea of free speech is to be up held and all countries should strive for it. Yes some will get hurt, some things will be said that is bad, that is what “courts” are good for, you do not like what something has been said, take the person to court for slander then, or better yet write a comment back. But when you start to shut people’s mouth’s up just because some (not all) people do not like what is being said then were does it stop, well like here it stops where to government dictates it to, where to government tells you what you can and cannot write about.

Also a reporter without borders which has condemned the blocking of you tube, is not an only American advocacy group but has representatives from just about every country and those representatives from those countries also want relaxed rules regarding freedom of speech.

I do apologize but this seems to be off target since the article was not about America’s influence over Thailand’s free speech. Thus I see no reason why America had to be brought down like that, to me that was nothing more then plain and simple anti-Americanism on here which had no basis to this discussion (oh by the way, did you see what I just did) instead of saying you should “not be allowed” to voice your opinion, I simply wrote back to countermined what you said, thus unlike your perspective where one would not be allowed to write on a certain topic, I accepted it (even though I do not like it) and wrote back in defense, now that is free and intelligent speech, after all what write does anyone have to tell me as a full grown adult what I can read or not read about.