This is in the Nation's headline news section online today:

No more website closures by authorities: Sitthichai

There will be no closing down of websites by the authorities in a few weeks time, says Information and Communications Technology Minister Sitthichai Pokaiyaudom, whose ministry has been accused of blocking more than 10,000 websites.

"On July 18, a [cyber crime] law will come into effect and any banning of websites will be done by court order," Sitthichai said during last week's talk at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) which dubbed him "The Minister who Banned You Tube".

Sitthichai who at one stage during the talk called himself 'incompetent' insisted that the Ministry has since the coup, blocked only some 200 or so websites and not 17,000 plus as claimed by the Freedom Against Censorships Thailand (FACT) group. He added that he knows that "it's hard to believe", however.

The Nation

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingne...newsid=30038960

already covered in the News Clippings here

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