Internet Censorship Facebook And Instagram Reported Blocked

[Flashermac]

NCPO denies planning to block Facebook services: report

 

 

Jos Sor 100 radio station reported that the National Council for Peace and Order denied planning to block Facebook services in Thailand.

 

The station quoted the NCPO as saying that Facebook was inaccessible in many parts of the country because a serious technical glitch at the main gateway Facebook servers. The station quoted NCPO as saying that the services would resume within 5 pm.

 

By 4:40 pm, residents of Bang Na areas said they could access their Facebook pages.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/NCPO-denies-planning-to-block-Facebook-services-re-30234834.html

[waerth]

Bull ..... facebook was working perfectly through a VPN

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Piriyathep K â€@PKinbangkok 4m

According to ThaiPBS source, they blocked FB for 1-2 hrs as a "test", but the negative reponse so overwhelming, they had to reverse course.

[Flashermac]

Follow up:

 

NCPO denies blocking Facebook

 

Following outcries by many Facebook users, the National Council for Peace and Order promptly denied that it has a plan to block Thais' access to the most popular social network.

 

Col Sirichan Ngathong, deputy spokeswoman of the NCPO, said the junta assigned the online media monitoring committee of the Information and Communications Technology Ministry investigate why the services were inaccessible.

 

She said the committee found that technical glitch at a main gateway linking Thailand's Internet to Facebook servers abroad caused the services to be inaccessible in many parts of the country.

 

Sirichan said the ICT committee had held an urgent meeting with the Internet service providers and expected that services would resume before 5 pm.

 

The services resumed at around 4:40 pm.

 

NCPO deputy spokesman Col Winthai Sivari went on TV at 4:55 pm to announce that the technical error at the gateway was the cause of the problem.

 

Many people found out at about 3 pm that they could not access their Facebook pages, leading to speculation that the social network was blocked because it was used as a main medium to organise protests against the junta.

 

 

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