BANGKOK – Internet surfers reported Friday that the home page of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, or MICT, was inaccessible, replaced with a green screen bearing a written message from the MICT declaring the page in violation of “public security.”
Since 2001, the MICT has blocked access to over 500,000 websites, mostly with pornographic or anti-government political content.
While MICT never provides explanation for blocking specific sites, media analysts are speculating the MICT might be “threatened” by evidence of its own existence, or the possibility that journalists might know how to spell its name correctly.
