The plot thickens: Thai officials claim the recent crashes of some government websites were the work of dissidents against the proposed single Internet gateway to be controlled by the junta, which analysts say could be exactly what the junta needs to justify controlling the Internet.
BANGKOK: Several Thai government websites temporarily crashed due to a “symbolic act” by people against plans to introduce a single Internet gateway, officials said, a measure critics say will make it easier for the ruling junta to censor the Web.
A minister stopped short of describing the incident as a cyberattack but said that it was triggered by those opposed to the proposal, dubbed by some online as the “Great Firewall of Thailand” – a play on China’s draconian Internet censorship programme.
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