Censorship by any other name: Thai authorities have regrouped from the likely deferment of their proposal for a single Internet gateway and moved on to the creation of a special military task force to counter online dissent.
BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta said it planned to create a new military unit to fight online dissent, as Internet freedom campaigners said they were training hundreds of volunteers for a “cyber war” against censorship.
The proposed unit follows controversial plans for a single access point to the Internet, dubbed by online protesters as the “Great Firewall of Thailand” – in reference to China’s draconian web surveillance – because it would make it easier to monitor the web.
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