Thailand Military Threatens Block Social Media

Thailand's military government announced it had taken over. After that, as reported by The Next Web, the military threatened to block social media in the country if the public used to criticize military leaders or redistributed riot.  

deadly Thai military has broadcast 14 television stations nationwide and about 3,000 radio stations after enacting martial law. A TV station forced to pull video feeds YouTube that remain outstanding after terrestrial broadcasts stopped.  

relatively untouched Internet network, but the military has been called the internet service provider ( Internet service provider / ISP) to meet in a meeting. previously Thailand several times to censor Internet content.  

The Government of Thailand in 2006 has blocked YouTube because it contains a video that is deemed to violate the law about the criticism of the king and the royal family. The same regulation had been used to block about 10,000 Facebook pages.  

Two years ago, Thailand is also one of the first countries to support the sensor feature on Twitter. It is not yet known whether the military would actually implement social media blocking the announcement was broadcast on Friday (23/05/2014) morning. 

In Thailand alone there are about 25 million registered Facebook users, while instant messaging Line application has been downloaded 20 million times in this country. The number of Twitter users is not known, but estimated the Thai language is the language of the 12 most widely used in social networking 140 characters.

Source : Kompas