NICK DOUGLAS — Thailand will continue banning YouTube even though the user who posted a video mocking the king has taken it down. (There are still two pics on YouTube, says Thailand, that harm the king's sensitive sensibilities.) But Google says they'll work with Thailand to help censor YouTube. So who's outlawed in what country? Where is Google banned, and where's it just censored? And what's with North Korea? Let's answer this with the magic of charts!
| China | Thailand | Brazil | North Korea | Turkey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Censored | Available | Available | Banned | Available | |
| YouTube | Temporarily banned last year | Banned | Temporarily banned in January | Banned | Temporarily, maybe soon permanently, banned |
| Yahoo | Censored and gov't-friendly | Available | Available | Banned | Available |
| AOL | Available, uncensored? | Available | Available | Banned | Available |
| Ask.com | Censored? | Available | Available | Banned | Available |
| MSN | Censored | Available | Available | Banned | Available |
| Wikipedia | English site banned; Chinese site temporarily banned 2005-2006 | Available | Available | You get the picture. North Korea has its own little Internet of about 30 sites. | Available |
Nick Douglas writes for Valleywag, Blogebrity, and Look Shiny. He's never even been kicked out of a party.








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> that harm the king's sensitive sensibilities
Um, no. It's a grevious offense to the Thai people, who consider the King a god incarnate. And since he has no political power, all you're really doing by running that pic of the King in clownface is insulting and offending the feelings of the loveliest people on the face of the earth for no good reason.
You forgot Iran, Nick, which bans many of these; Saudi A, Bahrain, Egypt, Zimbabwe, all of whom bans some/all of these things some/all of the time. (And stooges like Wagner defend all of the bans (and their inevitable torture, rape and extrajudicial executions) in all of the places with exactly the same high dudgeon and self-regard. Their oh-so-sensitive hand-wringing concern makes me cry. No, wait. Cry's not the right word. Laugh, that's it. Hey Wangner: your outrage is a magazine I read on the toilet.
Well traffic and hits. That's a good reason to someone.
> ... insulting and offending the feelings ... for no good reason.
By politically correctly "respecting" provably false statements, we'd be making the world much more dangerous for the survival of humanity and civilization.
I just wanted to get banned in Thailand.
news.bbc.co.uk is banned in Thailand as of about eight o'clock this evening. You may need to amend your chart soon!
mmm... Freewebs got banned in China last year when Shervin Pishevar suggested Americans boycott Yahoo. Yahoo (and others) bends over backwards for totalitarian regimes. Freewebs didn't go ass-kissing to scumbag dictators just to get back the Chinese page views...
forget about bans! access youtube from anywhere with youtube proxy
http://youtubeproxy.org
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