A few of the class discussions have included the YouTube website and the case of Thailand and the Google owned site is no different regarding inappropriate videos.
Thailand's government announced that the YouTube site contained multiple postings of insulting pictures and videos about the Thai king. Google has taken down many videos per request from its website and this case should be no different. However, Google has refused to take the offensive postings down as per the country's request. Thailand has decided to block access to the YouTube website.
This brings up many political and legal issues about this situation. Should a government be given the right to block certain websites in a country? I guess that depends on the country. However, there is no written law in Thailand, or the United States, that limits the use surrounding the Internet. I believe that this sort of censoring in the US can never occur because of the founding principles the country lives by. Censoring could be deemed a violation of our freedom of speech right given to US citizens. Also, there are many disrespectful things discussed publicly about our president every day. Should all of these comments be censored? I think not.
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