youtube.com, global challenge to the Thai culture

What a challenge it has been for the divine status of the Thai monarchy!

From the Jufer case, the first non-Thai to face prison sentence due to Les-Majeste law, to the blocking of youtube.com.

I'm the big fan of youtube.com, so I followed the news regarding the matters closely.

What I feel is, certainly, the Thai culture has faced the challenges from globalization. Thai culture cannot be viewed as homogenous, unity, bounded. It's more like a continue dialouge between the spread of the global culture and the pre-existing Thai culture.

We have to accept that, up to this point, all the aspect of any culture have to face challenges from different perspectives.

The important question is, therefore, how should we react to any challenge from the global (or, perhaps, Western) cultures that don't hold the same perspective as us.

Much of the Thai government and the Thai elites in the past decided to dealt with the spread of global challenges by "censorship". We must not forget that one there were many books that were perceived as a threat to nation burned.

Now, facing the recent challenges, the Thai government moved to block the website. In my opinion, the block is, however, such an outdated solution to the problem. It only resulted more in curiuosity, and only provoke more challenges.

Thai elite and government should, perhaps, start to realize that "you cannot close people's eyes, ears, and shut people's mouths forever!".