ShannonCT
Deity
YouTube and Thailand are both being pretty thick-skulled.
YouTube removes hundreds of pornographic videos every day, presumably because they want to be viewed as a mainstream company and don't want millions of American parents to ban their kids from using YouTube because it contains offensive material. Why not take down a video that is offensive to millions of Thais and keep their business too. Are they going to lose any American web surfers for taking down a video about the King of Thailand?
The Thai government is fighting a losing cause here. Even if they ban YouTube, there are millions of other websites that offensive material could be hosted. There are already dozens of YouTube-like sites. If they wanted to really block Thais from seeing offensive material on the web, they'd have to ban the entire web.
YouTube removes hundreds of pornographic videos every day, presumably because they want to be viewed as a mainstream company and don't want millions of American parents to ban their kids from using YouTube because it contains offensive material. Why not take down a video that is offensive to millions of Thais and keep their business too. Are they going to lose any American web surfers for taking down a video about the King of Thailand?
The Thai government is fighting a losing cause here. Even if they ban YouTube, there are millions of other websites that offensive material could be hosted. There are already dozens of YouTube-like sites. If they wanted to really block Thais from seeing offensive material on the web, they'd have to ban the entire web.
