Clip-releaser website shut down

Published: 28/08/2009 at 09:45 AM
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The website that released the audio clip in which Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva allegedly orders the use of force against red-shirt demonstrators over Songkran has been shut down, Information and Communications Technology Minister Ranongrak Suwanchawee said on Friday morning.

Mrs Ranongrak said she had ordered the closure of the website and an inquiry panel was set up to trace the origin of the controversial sound clip.

When asked whether it was an edited clip, the ICT minister said it is the responsibility of forensic science officials to find out.

She stressed that stringent legal action under the computer crime law will be taken against all those who forwarded the email containing the audio track.

The prime minister has insisted he never issued such an order and that the voice clip had been altered by ''ill-intentioned people'' to put the government in a bad light.

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prallo

Discussion 6 : 28/08/2009 at 01:51 PM6
@ Sataphon

The Taksin government closed thousands of websites without court order.
It shows that the Taksin government was undemocratic, corrupt and that the courts were 100% bogus.
BangkokRay

Discussion 5 : 28/08/2009 at 01:01 PM5
Comment #2,
Believe it is posted at Bangkok Pundit.
RicefieldRadio

Discussion 4 : 28/08/2009 at 12:09 PM4
"When asked whether it was an edited clip, the ICT minister said it is the responsibility of forensic science officials to find out."

What is really worrying here is that the ICT Minister closed a website without any evidence, just a speculation. AND the fact that she is threatening all those that forwarded it. What if I forwarded it to the PM because I thought it was a fake, would I be charged. Or what if I forward it to the Constitutional court or to the police because I thought the PM breached the constitution and or the law.

Thailand is becoming very much a police state, you can't regulate the populous into.
Steve

Discussion 3 : 28/08/2009 at 11:52 AM3
"When asked whether it was an edited clip, the ICT minister said it is the responsibility of forensic science officials to find out."

Mrs Ranongrak is being remarkably thorough - not one of her trademarks except where closing down websites is concerned. The PM and Deputy PM have already announced that the clip is edited - so who needs to bother with evidence? Maybe she didn't get the memo?
Sataphon

Discussion 2 : 28/08/2009 at 11:26 AM2
Can someone submit a link where the clip still can be found. I am happy to make a viral out of it. By closing down a website (just like this rotten government closed thousands of other websites without cour order, including one of mine) it shows that it is undemocratic, corrupt and that the courts are 100% bogus.
Please someone post a link and we make a viral out of it.
D lighted

Discussion 1 : 28/08/2009 at 11:22 AM1
I have not heard the sound clip, nor do I know the exact content of it and I absolutely have no opinion about the authenticity of it either.

What I do ask is: what is the legal basis - if any - for shutting down that website?!

I guess it can be written with five letters: P A N I C.

Those responsible for this very far-going measure should ask themselves too: what to do when the same clip is posted on foreign websites. Perhaps on hundreds of foreign websites. Block them all?

Look before you leap. And probably better don't leap at all.

Clip-releaser website shut down