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December 2, 2008 7:38:23 PM CST



Thai Protests Trigger Web Crackdown

Posted Sep 3, 08 12:08 PM CDT in World Technology 

(Newser) – Thai authorities are trying to shutter 400 websites, the Guardian reports, in the wake of anti-government demonstrations in Bangkok that led the prime minister to declare martial law yesterday. The move targeted sites that were said to have “disturbed the peaceful social order and morality of the people, and/or which were considered detrimental to national security.”

The objectionable sites include 344 deemed to contain material contemptuous of the royal family; others contained religious, sexual, or obscene content. The government advised providers of another 1,200 sites that they violated the country's computer crime laws and should be shut down.

Source Guardian (UK)

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An anti-government protester guards a barricade in Bangkok.   (AP Photo)
Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a rally on the lawn of the Government House today in Bangkok, Thailand.   (AP Photo)
A portrait of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej is shaded with an umbrella on an anti-government roadblock.   (AP Photo)
Thailand's army chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda, who has authority to quash violence in Bangkok under the declared state of emergency.   (AP Photo)
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