By: lew 
on 23 April 2015 - 15:43
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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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Comments
ladning page => landing page
https://www.blognone.com/node/67874#comment-808552 government's
"The MICT always denied it’s responsibility for many website blackouts."
it's => its
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Additional corrections
blocked website ==> blocked websites
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Internet Censorship in Thailand Gone Ugly, Blocked Page Redirects Users to Porn Site.
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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 => The styles of these landing pages are
// because you use 'are' in the sentence so I assume there are many styles. so put 's'.
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, => After the news about the redirection broke out,
// because 'redirection' has been mentioned before. so put 'the'.
dig up => dug up
// dig(present) dug(past)
The Minister of Information and Communications Technology (MICT) > Ministry?
What's the reason to write this news in English? Are you intend to target non Thai speaking audience?
He wants it to go viral.
As khun Lew has mentioned, Internet in Thailand are heavily censored. This is a great chance to prove to everyone that Thai gov. don't deal with the censorship transparently.
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You need to follow instruction from this video. Repeat it three times.
still dont get it. how this video is involved in this article?
for AEC purpose, I guess
It's for the sake of doge.
with in => within
Also, some of the verbs should be in past form.
5 week => 5 weeks
ตอนภาษาไทยดู soft อันนี้มาเต็มเลย 55
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Like!!
เทคโนโลยีไม่ผิด คนใช้มันในทางที่ผิดนั่นแหละที่ผิด!?!
next station. Reddit !
Next Station: /pol/
ใครว่างก็เอาไปโพสท์ลง /r/worldnews ใน reddit.com ดูนะครับ เผื่อว่าจะดัง
Send it to /r/polandball/ would be better.
Thailandball can't into freedom!
But now we can into porn.
Oh Dear ...
Go to hell TCSD! You deserved it, idiots.
Get ready to work from now on.
LOL this is full function!!!!
now we know why they censored the internet :3
Money rules the world!!!!!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
O[]o!!!!
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.
Is there a decryption experiment and Quantum experiment?
ผมเข้าผิดเว็บสินะ lol
ชอบเว็บไหนละครับ หะหะหะหะ
Welcome to Thailand !
That is the way things are.
Thailand only!
If you are gov officer or millionaire, you can do something like a god. If you aren't, you are f***.
I don't need human sex anymore.
"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
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If english news still be censored, I would like to suggest wahkor code.
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.
I am Thai People
มือใหม่!! ใหม่จริงๆนะ
The is no such words as "Thai people". Please use Thai or People of Thailand. It's grammartically correct. But practically, no one ever used it.
I like to be part of that site.
It will useful for me.