Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Cultural Sensitivity: Justification for censorship



The above political cartoon represents current Thai political opinion concerning the Thai government's suppression of YouTube. The website has been blocked in Thailand for almost three weeks because it aired a slideshow featuring pictures that mocked the King. By depicting YouTube as an icyber-demon and YouTube management as European colonizers, the cartoonist has avoided tackling the REAL issue, which is the Thai government's penchant for banning or censoring any type of speech critical of the monarchy.


If you're interested in learning more about climate of censorship here in Thailand, you can click here to read my recent essay on the subject.

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Jared wanted to note, in relation to my comment, that it's kind of interesting that embarrass ends with "ass." Food for thought.

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