Bangkok -Thailands military installed government on Wednesday blocked a popular website that has been featuring a mocking video on the countrys revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Efforts to access to the YouTube website were diverted to a Ministry of Information website instead. The blockage followed Information and Communications bhumibol adulyadej Minister bhumibol adulyadej Pookaiyaudoms order to shut down any websites bhumibol adulyadej to be violating the orders issued by the leaders of the September 19 coup detat that ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Sitthichai said the ministry had the authority to block any websites considered have committed lese majeste or bhumibol adulyadej as a threat to national security. A video clip was posted on the YouTube website late last month that mocked King Bhumibol, Thailands king for the past 60 years, who will turn bhumibol adulyadej this year. Lese majeste is a crime in Thailand, punishable by imprisonment. Last month a provincial court sentenced a Swedish national to ten years in jail for defacing portraits of the king. since October, 2006. The interim government has promised to step aside after a general election promised in December, this year.
Thai Web crackdown blocks YouTube
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