Court hits prohibited websitesA court has ordered the blocking of 71 URLs related to illegal gambling over the past week, according to the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES). DES Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn said that between Nov 8-14 the court authorised the blocking of 80 URLs found to have violated the computer crime law. According to Mr Chaiwut, the DES ministry has asked the court to block a further 418 URLs for publishing illegal content. He added that legal action was also being pursued against a group of people associated with nine URLs with illegal content. Of the total, six URLs were based on Facebook while the remaining three were on Twitter.
