Thailand’s military government has ordered the creation of a great firewall of Thailand to control the flow of information on the Internet.

General Prayuth’s cabinet ordered the ICT and Justice Ministries and the National Police Department to set up a single internet gateway in order to control inappropriate websites and to control the flow of information into the country from overseas via the internet.

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This place is starting to feel like Germany 1933.

Or Orwell's 1984.

Or Orwell's 1984.

But instead of big brother it's big Pee

1984 was fiction. This is real.

This place is starting to feel like Germany 1933.

Disagree, feels like East Germany 1989 or China 2015.

Learn from big brother.

Did they really use a term that translates as "great wall". Unbelievable!

What I am afraid: with the known professionalism in the IT sector this project might lead to significant outages and day long interruptions.

Hard times to come.

My 8 foot satellite dish is still functioning, just have to reconnect the receiver

1984 was meant to be a warning not a guide

Time to start researching VPNs I guess

Please continue in the Govt orders great firewall of Thailand topic.

Closed.