Mod note from Bill: I copied this here, to start a new thread, from the Internet Censorship thread.
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Here in Thailand for those who doesn't know yet, the people are trying to remove the actual government (again), there is protests in Bangkok almost everyday now, things are getting hot and the government seems to be on the lose side of things, trying to boycott access to more than 300.000 websites and all the major social networks and communication Apps like Telegram (the favorite one used by the protesters).
I remember when the last big protest took place, they censored youtube and facebook, it was 2010 and the protests dragged for months and the troops stormed them killing almost a hundred!
In 2014 the army sized power of the country and remain until nowadays, the protesters are forcing the junta out of the government including the actual Prime minister (Ex. Army General).
Now they are calling for reform of the Monarchy as well, which is a huge issue in this country due to the very hardcore and draconian laws in place.
The government declared the state of emergency in Bangkok and things just barely start to get hot, I hope it end up well because the last time it was ugly, the Prime Minister said publicly on TeeVee he will NOT resign, doesn't matter what.
In the meantime the use of Tor network and Vpn are rising world wide including Thailand, after they started to censor websites and Apps via local ISP, people start using different approaches in order to keep up to date (Tinder App is one example), the point is: they can't boycott an unhappy mass of people!
Edit: I will post more about the protests against government and monarchy, the local papers are useless to get the facts straight, one TV channel that was reporting the truth was censored, for those willing to check what is going on here, the guardian dot com is doing it all right.