April 1, 201313 yr YouTube today announced the release of a boxed collection of 14 DVDs containing all the YouTube videos ever submitted on Thailand - a full 70 hours of entertainment, information and trivia caught on video about Thailand.Each DVD will cover a different topic and most of the controversy has been about Disc 6 - "The Lese Majeste Collection".While details will not be fully known until after 2pm on Monday Thailand time - midnight of April 1 in California - it appears the DVD includes all the material banned by the Ministry of Internet Censorship of Thailand (MICT). "This trouble-making YouTube company is just trying to blacken the image of Thailand by releasing harmful videos that try to bring down the system of constitutional monarchy," said a statement by Somchai Veerasakul, chairman of the Royalty Protection Group of Bang Kapi, and faxed to the media.full story - Bangkok Post:YouTube April 1 DVD release 'includes lese majeste video'bkkguy
April 1, 201313 yr Dann! It has to be too dificult to believe to collect all the youtube videos into a compilation. Who would do that?? Funy!
April 1, 201313 yr Author If any thread screamed 'April Fool', this has to be it! GB obviously didn't think so - my same post was pulled very quickly there followed by a PM huffing and puffing that I was trying to get him arrested for posting a message advertising "lese majeste videos" even though GB thought it was "very poor judgment on Bangkok Post's part" I thought it was a fairly good effort for them and it perhaps reflects social change - a few years ago fear and self-censorship would have killed any idea of an "April Fool" article like this, which is why I thought it was worth a post to see what the reaction would be and I think dismissing this as just an obvious prank perhaps misses the point! and I think it was a lot better than The Nation's "April Fool" article on finding enough gold in Loei to pay off Thailand's national debt. still I think the best I saw was Google Nose (beta), a search engine for smells - "people who sniffed this also sniffed..." bkkguy ps I thought you had me on ignore
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