Internet users Wednesday night (Sept 30) protested plans for a single gateway by attacking and forcing offline at least a half-dozen government websites, including the prime minister’s, Defence Ministry and Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
“The government is anxious about our youth and how they are using the Internet, that is why we have studied the use of a single gateway”, he told reporters.
Thai government websites dropped offline this week in what was either a politically motivated distributed denial-of-service attack or a case of badly designed websites falling over in response to an unusual increase in visitor numbers.
The other websites affected were the state-owned telecommunications website TOT Plc, the firm most likely to host the single gateway – CAT Telecom, and the Thai military’s Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc), the Thailand Business News reported. It also has summoned people who have criticized the junta on social media and held them for several days of confinement and questioning known as “attitude adjustment”.