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Still no YouTube

A couple of weeks ago a video on the YouTube website came to the Thai government's attention. (YouTube is the popular video-sharing site that we've occasionally used to post video clips on this blog). This particular video contained images of the Thai king that were deemed to be very offensive to the monarchy and to the Thai people, so the government blocked all access to YouTube from within Thailand. The local media is not even reporting what was in the video clip - just that it was extremely offensive. The government asked YouTube (and their owners, Google) to remove the clip, but according to them it didn't violate any of their policies. Eventually the person who had posted the clip removed it on their own, but by that time a series of copycat videos had been posted. So, for now, our access to YouTube remains cut off and our video clips of Claire and Eliza will remain unseen!

-Tom

Posted by Tom & Candice Mast on April 16, 2007 09:44 PM |

Comments

hmm...interesting

Posted by: Kris | April 17, 2007 01:19 AM

looks like it might be a while before we get YouTube access, but you can still post to Google Video if you want to.

Posted by: paul | April 29, 2007 03:25 PM

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