MICT brags it blocks 16,944 webpages-Prachatai
31-07-09
MICT’s claim of blocking 16,944 URLs stuns free speech advocate
Prachatai: July 27, 2009
http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/1323
On July 27, Danny O’Brien, International Coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), expressed his astonishment at learning that the Minister of Information and Communications Technology had revealed that the ministry had already dealt with 16,944 URLs with improper content.
In his view, it is peculiar for the ICT Minister to come out and claim such an achievement, because it is like a Minister of Transport bragging about how many roads the government has closed, instead of how many the government has built to benefit the public.
Out of the 16,944 URLs, 11,000 concern national security, 5,872 have content which is socially and culturally inappropriate, and 72 have content affecting the economy.
01-08-09 at 11:09
Of particular interest are those 72 sites “affecting the economy” and it’s hard not to speculate what they are. Sites calling for boycotts of Thailand and Thai products and services perhaps?