Thailand

Background Thai politics, long famous for coups and military dominance, shifted course in 2001 with the emergence of a single-party civilian government led by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party. The TRT Party won landslide victories in two...

- Posted on 07/Aug/2012; tagged in Thailand, Asia

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: March 2, 2012

Chinese users circumvent the Great Firewall to flood President Obama's Google+ campaign page with comment. Messages left included tongue-in-cheek references to the Occupy Wall Street movement, requests for green cards, and criticism of China's heavy-handed censorship practices. The Committee to Protect Journalists...

- Posted on 02/Mar/2012; tagged in China, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Pakistan, Russia, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Threats to the Open Net

ONI Blog: CPJ Urges End To Internet Censorship in 2011 Report

The Committee to Protect Journalists recently released its 2011 "Attacks on the Press" report. In the report, the CPJ urged countries and organizations to band together to fight censorship. One of the articles in the report noted that with...

- Posted on 28/Feb/2012; tagged in Thailand, Pakistan, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Publications

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: October 7, 2011

Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...

- Posted on 07/Oct/2011; tagged in Thailand, Italy, Asia, Europe

ONI Blog: Thai Internet Regulation May Curtail Its Economic Potential

Giant Internet companies spoke out this week about what they see as an ongoing and "dangerous" development for the Thailand Internet economy. Four years ago, the Thai government introduced Internet monitoring laws to combat fraud. But opponents of the heightened regulation...

- Posted on 19/Sep/2011; tagged in Thailand, Asia, Political filtering

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: September 16, 2011

- Posted on 16/Sep/2011; tagged in Burma, Iran, Thailand, Algeria, United Kingdom, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 1, 2011

- Posted on 01/Jul/2011; tagged in China, Thailand, United States/Canada, Asia, Europe, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Elections, Privacy, Threats to the Open Net

ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review

The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe. Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...

- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: Intermediary Censorship of Wikileaks On the Rise

The list of private companies that have in some way refused access or support to Wikileaks is growing: as of December 6, the tally included Amazon, EveryDNS, PayPal, and Tableau Software; French hosting company OVH also appears to have shut down...

- Posted on 06/Dec/2010; tagged in China, Thailand, United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Take-down

ONI Blog: ONI Releases Reports on Filtering in Asia, China

New research from the OpenNet Initiative reveals accelerating restrictions on Internet content as Asian governments shift to next generation controls. These new techniques go beyond blocking access to websites and are more informal and fluid, implemented at edges of the network, and...