There was widespread panic in Thailand last month when access to Facebook was cut_via the country’s major ISPs and mobile operators for 40 minutes. Despite repeated threats to clamp down on social media_due to critical messages, Thailand’s military government described the outage as a “technical issue,” but that appears at odds with_comment from one operator. Telenor, the Norwegian telecoms company which runs Thai operator DTAC, acknowledged in a statement provided to TNW that a government request forced it to shut down access to Facebook: Telenor Group can confirm that on Wednesday 28 May dtac received a notification at 15:00 local...

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