Thailand Sues YouTube

eldavojohn writes "Thailand is hitting YouTube with charges of lese majeste (up to 15 years in prison) regarding the recent videos on YouTube showing the king next to feet, something extremely offensive in Thailand. 'Since the first clip, more new videos mocking the king have appeared on YouTube, including pictures of the monarch that had been digitally altered to make him resemble a monkey. Thailand's 79-year-old king, almost universally adored by Thais, is the world's longest-reigning monarch, and one of the few who is still protected by tough laws that prohibit any insult against the royal family.'"

Royal Family

[nurb432]

Can suck my toe..

Now, sue me. Just try it. In *my* country i can say this, so go away.

Applaud

[leoPetr]

LeoPetr, almost universally revered by Thai Slashdotters, makes an incisive and witty comment on the situation.

Hrm...

[laddy]

Thailand's 79-year-old king, almost universally adored by Thais, is the world's longest-reigning monarch, and one of the few who is still protected by tough laws that prohibit any insult against the royal family.'
 
Hrm...

You tube should plead guilty!

[physicsphairy]

Thailand is hitting YouTube with charges of lese majeste (up to 15 years in prison)

YouTube should plead guilty and accept their 15 year prison sentence.

Take that you abstract embodiment of an American corporational contract owned by another abstract entity also with no definite personification! It's off to the pokey!

Re:Um....

[Donniedarkness]

Agreed. You made me wish I had mod points.

He's a king; if he can lead the country, surely he can withstand...FEET. I understand that feet are treated differently over there.... but well, if someone posted a picture of me next to a bare penis (or hell, even a BEAR penis), I don't think I'd be trying to sue them--it's the internet. Nobody cares.

Re:Royal Family

[compro01]

well, a number of laws have exhausted their purpose...

Re:Um....

[ErikZ]

Correction, nobody cares about you.

vacations cancelled

[BamZyth]

Damn I work at google and traveling there was the only way I could get sex.

Re:Why do I get the image

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this the same situation, or is it fundamentally different?

Fundamentally different: this would involve extradition from America.

Re:Err...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail [freebsd.org]

photomosiac

[Chutzpah]

They could have ignored it, but now its going to be a matter of days before makes a photo mosiac [wikipedia.org] of the king of Thialand made up entirely of pictures of feet.

Re:Here we go again

[Deadstick]

you are sure to see even more pictures of the king in all sorts of not-so-pleasant-for-him ways

Like with 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0 on his forehead...

rj

Great idea

[commodoresloat]

Way to go, King. Threaten to sue YouTube for silly pictures making fun of you. I - and 500,000 other nerds who know how to use photoshop - would have never known that the King of Thailand was insulted by a foot or cared about youtube before reading this story. I'm glad you informed us by this action -- that will surely put a stop to the ridicule!

A proper reply to king Bhumibol Adulyadej

[Stormwatch]

You don't frighten us, Thai pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Bhumibol King, you and all your silly Thai ce-e-e-e-e-ensors. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt! I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a gibbon and your father smelt of langsats! Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

Foot icon?

[mrbobjoe]

recent videos on YouTube showing the king next to feet, something extremely offensive in Thailand

If there was ever an article that deserved the humor "foot" icon, it's this one...

Re:Um....

[Hognoxious]

But how did he get to be King? By exploiting the masses, that's how.

Re:You tube should plead guilty!

[EnsilZah]

I wonder if the can use a time server for that.

Re:Kings have been doing this for a while.

[Hognoxious]

Couldn't he have just, hmmm, peed in it?

Re:another proud American

[shutdown -p now]

Back in mid-80s, a Russian and an American argue about politics.

"Unlike you, we have true free speech", the American says, "see, I could go right to the White House and shout, 'Reagan is an asshole' as much as I like, and they won't do anything to me!"

"Then we have free speech in the USSR as well", shrugs the Russian. "I can, too, go to the Red Square and shout 'Reagan is an asshole' as much as I like, and they won't do anything to me either".

Re:You tube should plead guilty!

[Fujisawa Sensei]

Since a lawyer will no doubt be representing the "abstract embodiment of an American corporational contract owned by another abstract entity" in court, shouldn't the lawyer also represent that "abstract embodiment of an American corporational contract owned by another abstract entity" in jail?

Re:Um....

[juan2074]

Just as I was sitting down to a bowl of bear penis soup, I read this.
Thanks for ruining my dinner.