bkkguy Posted April 1, 2013 Posted April 1, 2013 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 Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted April 1, 2013 Posted April 1, 2013 If any thread screamed 'April Fool', this has to be it! Quote
Guest Assuperman Posted April 1, 2013 Posted April 1, 2013 Dann! It has to be too dificult to believe to collect all the youtube videos into a compilation. Who would do that?? Funy! Quote
bkkguy Posted April 1, 2013 Author Posted April 1, 2013 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 Quote
