Thailand forgives Youtube for its awful sins

YouTube's site operator has agreed to not allow videos which will violate the country's laws or could be deemed offensive to the Thai people, reports The Wall Street Journal (subscription only). Minister of Information and Communication Technology Thailand-ways, Sitthichai Phokai-udom claimed that the government had lifted the ban without passing comment.

However, in an interview with the Minister in Thailand's The Nation paper, he allegedly said that the ban was scrapped following an agreement with YouTube.

Google, which owns the popular video-sharing site, has not commented just yet but wrote earlier this year to the minister expressing an apology: "We likewise respect Thailand's law and tradition and hope that we will be able to reach a mutually acceptable resolution to the current controversy." Seems that a compromise has been made, after all. µ