Governments must understand the culture of the Internet and the global generation that can neither grow nor compete without access to it.
WHOEVER posted the video on YouTube ridiculing King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand knew what he or she was doing. In Thai culture and tradition, the king is genuinely revered, and the video insulted him in ways that could only invite national outrage and precisely the government reaction it got: Thailand banned access to YouTube.
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