Some tinkering is going on with Thailand’s not-so-Great Firewall.
Always something of a sieve, the filtering system was serving up more than the usual green box of rejection, occasionally returning a full-page YouTube video of Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha’s “Returning Happiness to Thai people.”
The video is last year’s “We Are the World” treatment featuring 29 singers produced by the Royal Thai Army School of Music. It’s embedded in a bounce page hosted at blocked.ict-cop.com, which was intermittently being returned by the censorship apparatus maintained by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
Meanwhile other requests were bouncing to a blank page at tcsd.info, a domain registered several days before last year’s coup on May 17, 2014. According to internet registry records, that domain was registered using Queensland, Australia’s PublicDomainRegistry.com using an anonymizing service to avoid providing any registration details.
Ict-cop.com was registered March 1 by Scottsdale, Arizona-based GoDaddy.com using its anonymous “Domains by Proxy” service.
Fortunately some (purely objective) testing found none of the bounce pages for blocked porn sites redirected to the child-filled video, as that would be kind of creepy.
