11/04/2010
Bangkok Post
After the government's disruption of the signal from People Channel TV (PTV), the red shirts' voice in Pathum Thani's Lat Lum Kaeo district, the Thai Journalists Association and the Thailand Cable Television Association issued a joint statement which called the closure of PTV and a politically related website unconstitutional, adding that it reflected a double standard in law enforcement.
The statement could also have read that such attempts at censorship in a modern society are sure to fail. There are simply too many outlets and sources, including blogs and mobile phone texts, to shut out. What's more, it is human nature to believe the worst of the state when it begins to censor information.
Yesterday afternoon government security forces started to move against red shirt protesters camped out around Phan Fa Bridge and by 8pm television film crews were recording war-like scenes. There have been a large number of casualties as well.
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