Internet Censorship

Thailand is well known for its heavily censored Internet. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MICT) has frequently announced the large number (thousands) of blocked websites as its major achievement.

Normally, a visit to government-blocking website via Thai internet service providers (ISP) will redirect to a government's landing page with the message "this site has been blocked". The styles of these landing pages are varied to government agencies that take charge (e.g. MICT or the police).

On Tuesday, some Thai internet users noticed the 'redirect' from one of government's the landing page to a porn site. The question has been raised: how can this happen? The landing page, http://TCSD.info, was operated by the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), a division of Royal Thai Police.

After the news about the redirection broke out, the division quickly announced that TCSD.info is not its official web site and they have only one web site called http://TCSD.in.th.

That is a complete lie. TCSD.info has been used as the landing page for TCSD for a very long time. There's still an article on TCSD.in.th (claimed for official site) about how the links on TCSD.info work.

At the moment, TCSD.info is already inaccessible, you couldn’t visit it now. The WHOIS data was quickly sealed by a privacy guard service. The last record before it was sealed said the domain was operated by a person who use an email address “sp.chaiyasing@gmail.com”.

A user from ThaiSEOBoard, Thailand's SEO Community, dug up that email address and it appears to be used by a user “idon-studio” on the same internet forum. "idon-studio" has the record of posting a comment that he gained a large sum of income by banner advertisement from an 'unknown website'. He got 4,290.95 USD within five weeks earlier this year. It is very likely that “idon-studio” got rich by porn advertising commisions from large amount of traffic redirected to TCSD.info.

Internet censorship in Thailand is always an opaque operation. The MICT always denied its responsibility for many website blackouts, including Facebook blackout in 2014. Now it should be the time to call for transparency in the censorship process in Thailand.

Source - ThaiSEOBoard

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panurat2000 Thu, 23/04/2015 - 15:51

On Tuesday, some Thai internet users noticed the 'redirect' from one of government's ladning page to a porn site.

ladning page => landing page

Jonathan_Job Thu, 23/04/2015 - 23:55

In reply to by sarunint

+1

Additional corrections

  • "announced the large number (thousands) of blocked website as its major achievement."
    blocked website ==> blocked websites

Suggestions

  • To explain others that might not know the situation, you may include reasons why these websites are blocked. For example, they are ones with pornography, lese majeste related content and anti-government statements.

mek Fri, 24/04/2015 - 00:02

In reply to by panurat2000

Normally, a visit to government-blocking website via Thai internet service providers (ISP) will redirect to government's landing page with the message "this site has been blocked".

to government's landing page => to a government's landing page

// one page, never been mentioned before. so put 'the'.

The style of these landing pages are varied to government agencies that take charge (e.g. MICT or the police).

The style of these landing pages are => The styles of these landing pages are

// because you use 'are' in the sentence so I assume there are many styles. so put 's'.

On Tuesday, some Thai internet users noticed the 'redirect' from one of government's landing page to a porn site

one of government's landing page => one of the government's landing pages

// one of landing page <= I assume one of many pages. so put 's'.
// because 'landing pages' has been mentioned before. so put 'the'.

After the news about redirection broke out, the division quickly announced that TCSD.info is not its official web site and they have only one web site called http://TCSD.in.th.

After the news about redirection broke out, => After the news about the redirection broke out,

// because 'redirection' has been mentioned before. so put 'the'.

A user from ThaiSEOBoard, Thailand's SEO Community, dig up that email address and it appears to be used by a user “idon-studio” on the same internet forum.

dig up => dug up

// dig(present) dug(past)

Xcboy Thu, 23/04/2015 - 23:17

Oh, God! I didn't believe myself. I would understand the point this news in English. But, I really thanks a lot for make sure my English is still working. Hahaha.

alph501 Fri, 24/04/2015 - 09:26

"The MICT always denied its responsibility for many website blackouts, including Facebook blackout in 2014. Now it should be the time to call for transparency in the censorship process in Thailand."

+1024

qute Sat, 25/04/2015 - 09:21

Good job with your first Thainglish article! I get your point (of course, as a Thai) but I don't think foreigners will (fully) understand what you are trying to say.

I mean, if this diary is just for fun then that's fine. But you really really need tons of editing if you want it to go viral.