China’s top three internet service providers have been given until next February to prevent the country’s cell phone users from using circumvention tools to view online content hosted outside the Great Firewall. State-run China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom have all been told to ensure their 1.3 billion subscribers can’t access blocked content with […]
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha reconfirmed that the controversial single internet gateway was just an idea under discussion and that the government had not taken any action to implement the idea. “Allow me to say for one more time it was just a matter under discussion. But it was leaked and publicized on the aspect which […]
Several major government websites were forced offline in Thailand on September 30 when Internet activists organized tens of thousands of people to visit and refresh their home pages until the websites were disabled due to high traffic. The websites of the Royal Thai Armed Forces headquarters, Prime Minister’s Office, Internal Security Operations Command, the Ministry […]
THE GOVERNMENT has partly retreated from its controversial plan to merge the country’s Internet connections into a single gateway after widespread criticism and heavy pressure from netizens. Government figures yesterday said the plan was merely in the feasibility-study stage and the pros and cons of the proposal were being weighed. Read more: The Nation
The websites of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and the CAT Telecom collapsed for several hours after Internet users joined forces to manually attack the two government websites to show their strong opposition to the government’s single gateway initiative. ICT website was down first since 7 pm last night before the scheduled 10 […]
The objective of the international-Internet single gateway initiative is not to enhance national security, but to help Internet businesses reduce costs by sharing a single gateway, Information and Communication Technology Minister Uttama Savanayana said yesterday. Uttama said the initiative was being explored by the ministry along with other organisations and stakeholders. Read more: The Nation
Thailand’s military government has ordered the creation of a great firewall of Thailand to control the flow of information on the Internet. General Prayuth’s cabinet ordered the ICT and Justice Ministries and the National Police Department to set up a single internet gateway in order to control inappropriate websites and to control the flow of […]
A new web technology being championed by China is allowing a short-term gap in its so-called “Great Firewall,” which blocks Chinese Internet users from sites blacklisted by the government in Beijing. Experts say how the gap is closed could have ramifications for the entire world. The gap exists because of IPv6, the next generation of […]
