kojis Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 In this one Maria is described fucking Judas and jesus in the same time...it's still on u tube... some leaders really need to lighten up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3jC4c6fVg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Just descriptions are not enough, must be offending blasphemous content to convince me. And I'm rather sure that if some american church should find out the clip would be removed within minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Found the answer We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech which contains slurs or the malicious use of stereotypes intended to attack or demean a particular gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or nationality. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 thais should be relieved the 80's show spitting image isn't still running and just a point, if thais concerntrated on giving each other as thais as much respect as HM maybe it wouldn't have one of the highest murder rates in the world, deaths on the roads around songran down to booze, huge HIV rates, corruption, social inequality etc etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Odd that folks don't get their knickers in a bind over censorship in the PRC or the ridiculous sentences handed down by its courts. Not really odd Flasher. The Chinese government has a lot of economic and military clout. (I know you're tongue is in your cheek). This Youtube/Thailand thing has me confused. On the one hand it's a censorship issue but it's also obvious these jerks just want to make trouble. Maybe it's just another case of modern technology coming up against tradition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 It's not necessarily 'just' causing trouble, I think they're trying to make a point about the lese majest rules in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 You may be right and maybe the end result will mean a more open society. But there seems to be something malicious behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 No doubt it's malicious as well, fully agree, but on the other hand it's creating a discussion, where for the majority, Thailand's 'old fashioned and severe' lese majest laws are being questioned by Western media, with the Swiss bloke parading around all the time on TV, nicely chained up and all. Good PR for "Thailand, the land of smiles' and such promotional campaigns. BBC World is wondering if after these discussions, HM will be able to be protected any longer by said lese majest rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 YouTube users escalate battle (BangkokPost.com, Agencies) - In-your-face users of the YouTube video-sharing service have placed at least seven new video attacks on His Majesty the King on the website in the two days since YouTube disappeared the one that triggered a blackout in Thailand. The attacks on His Majesty also got cruder and ruder early on Saturday, and all referred to a government attempt to block views of the illegal videos by users in Thailand. Earlier, YouTube indicated it would help Thailand block access to certain pages that contain clips offensive to its revered monarch instead of blacking out the whole site. But YouTube listed seven crude videos attacking the monarch in its search engine as of Saturday morning Thailand time, each with a sample photo and a description. Each of the videos had dozens or hundreds of comments, almost all of them censuring or attacking the users who had uploaded them to the user-controlled video archive service. The appearance of newer, cruder videos made it clear that Thai government publicity for YouTube, in the form of front-page statements and the ban on YouTube, had merely served as a red flag to the anarchic segment of Internet users that always flocks to such free-speech issues. The YouTube problem poses a major dilemma for the government, which does not have the ability to impose a total block on YouTube - although seeing the site is difficult for many users in Thailand - and which only escalates the issue every time it discusses a ban. Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom told the Reuters news agency on Friday that the idea came during a phone call with a California-based government liason officer of Google Inc, which owns YouTube. The site had refused to pull out a clip insulting His Majesty the King. That refusal led the military-backed government to entirely block access to YouTube on Wednesday. "He said pulling out those clips would not be an effective way to stop the damage, since users could re-post them again," Mr Sitthichai quoted his conversation with Google's Andrew McLaughlin, the firm's senior policy counsel. "He said a more effective way would be to block certain pages not to be seen in Thailand," said Mr Sitthichai. "It will be a few days before we lift the ban on the entire site." Bangkok Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 BBC World is wondering if after these discussions, HM will be able to be protected any longer by said lese majest rules. I wonder the same thing. Youtube does kind of make a mockery of lese majeste laws. HM seems like a pretty decent guy to me. Hopefully the people trying to bring him down have a better alternative. If they think that far ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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