YouTube and the King

[Article] Thai citizens have been unable to access YouTube since Wednesday last week. The Thai government decided to block access to Goggles' video sharing portal after an ‘offensive’ slideshow mocking Thailand’s monarch was uploaded by a user calling himself ‘Paddidda’.


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The 44-second video slide show depicted the king with feet above his head, a serious Thai-taboo, as well as images with graffiti sprawled over it.The video was removed from YouTube the following day but another user under the pseudonym ‘Thaifreespeech’, claiming to be from Iceland, uploaded...
This article was published Tuesday, 10 April, 2007 by AFP
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YouTube and the King


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