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YouTube is Back!

Posted by Stuart at 06:53 PM on August 31, 2007

For the past five months, I would often click on a web page link only to be given a blank page (or even worse, the infamous green "ICT Ministry" page that told me I was trying to access an illegal site) and would be reminded that YouTube has been banned in Thailand. Quite annoying, to say the least. It's amazing how wide-spread YouTube actually is. You don't realize how much you enjoy something, until it is taken away from you...

Today, I had a very pleasant surprise that a video link I clicked actually went to the YouTube site. The ban has finally been lifted! I know this will be big news in the expat community here. For more on this story, see the Nation's newspaper story: Ban on YouTube lifted after deal. Website to block clips offensive to Thais or that break Thai law

Around the time of the ban, I had started taking some videos with the plans to release them on this site, through YouTube. Those plans were pushed to the side due to the ban, and I threw myself into building the ITS4Thai website full time. And speaking of that, we just released four new vocabulary building games on the site. The list is now:

Fruits and Vegetables
Twelve Colors
Things Found in a Restaurant
Things Found in the Office
Steak and Ale (Meats and Drinks)

So feel free to head over to the Five Free Vocab Lessons page on ITS4Thai.com and try them out.

Comments

Posted by: Charles on August 31, 2007 7:06 PM

Looking forward to your videos and I'll check out the lessons over the holiday weekend.

Posted by: Wade on August 31, 2007 8:37 PM

Steak And Ale - HA! Didn't you used to work there in Gainesville, or am I imagining things again?

Posted by: Stuart on August 31, 2007 10:19 PM

Wade: Your memory serves you well. I guess the experience must have made a real impression on me. That was 15 years ago, and I still think of it often... especially when I have really bad service at a restaurant. (haha)

Posted by: Greg on January 8, 2008 5:30 AM

Hey,

I took the fruit and vegetables lesson at ITS4Thai- it was fun! I got 10 of 12- and I don't know Thai at all- the lesson worked. So that's Flash, huh? Interesting- I thought Flash was the machinery behind all those crappy websites(usually for nightclubs, hotels, and big sname sneaker manufacturers)with microscopic text fonts, blaring music and s-l-o-w graphics. Y'know, the ones you have to click back to get away from, only you CAN'T?