Background In the aftermath of a military coup that followed years of heightened fear and self-censorship, the Internet community in Thailand continues to face uncertainties created by censorship policies, antiquated laws, regulatory reform, and the privatization of state-owned telecoms. Considered by many to...

YouTomb, a project of the MIT Free Culture group that studies takedown notices by the video-sharing website YouTube, has identified a mechanism used by Google to restrict video content in specific countries. This appears to be the method YouTube...

Today the Bangkok Post reported that the Thai National Legislative Assembly (NLA) approved the Cyber Crimes Bill in a nearly unanimous vote. Nearly a year has passed since the military coup overthrowing former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and the current NLA...

The recently founded group Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) has petitioned the Thai Human Rights Commission for an end to Internet censorship. ...

After having its website (www.thairakthai.or.th) blocked and restored in the wake of the Thai coup, the ousted Thai Rak Thai Party is creating a blog on the site and calling on its supporters to "air their frustrations about the...

After a day of inaccessibility on Oct. 2, the website of the Thai Rak Thai party (www.thairakthai.or.th) was back online on Oct. 3. According to Bangkok's The Nation, the restored website "plays up the resignation letter of former...

As reported by the Bangkok newspaper The Nation, the online academic forum Midnight University (www.midnightuniv.org) was shut down by Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Ministry on September 29, one day after five Chiang Mai University scholars tore up...

The military junta that deposed controversial Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra earlier this week has revoked all laws in the country and issued its own vague media restrictions requiring all media outlets to self-censor. Media are required to report only...