A man works inside a network room at a company in Bangkok, Thailand, October 8, 2015 . A proposal by Thailand's junta for a single Internet gateway to allow authorities to monitor content would destroy competition and brought to mind the most authoritarian measures to stifle free speech, a former information minister said on Thursday. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
BANGKOK: Thailand's military government has scrapped a plan to create a single Internet gateway, a deputy prime minister said, putting paid to a system aimed at allowing authorities to monitor content.
The plan to consolidate Thailand's 10 Internet gateways into one central government-controlled point had been one of the government's least popular ideas since it came to power following a bloodless coup last year.
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