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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