People Channel

People Channel outside of Thailand

People Channel, the television station popular with red shirt protesters, continues to be blocked for viewers in Thailand. For those outside of Thailand, the home page of peoplechannel.net currently displays a welcome message and picture from the cover page of Matichon newspaper declaring that Thai people are lucky to have "Abhisit" [in quotes] as Prime Minister. The image shows red shirt supporters listening to a speech at Democracy Monument in Bangkok.

Cover page of Matichon - Thai people are lucky to have Abhisit as Prime Minister

The home page also has two embedded video players and audio players for the main protest sites: Phan Fa (now abandoned by the red shirt protesters) and Ratchaprasong Intersection.

People Channel now online but under Thai government control

Here's an interesting snippet from a news article published on April 9, 2010. If this article is correct, the government is now controlling the output of People TV, the mouthpiece of the red shirt anti-government movement.

Red shirt TV censored by government

People Channel was back on the air Friday afternoon, but government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn told The Associated Press the signal remained under government control.

"We are still controlling any news reporting that distorts facts," Panitan said.

Dstation TV Online People Channel blocked by MICT

Dstation TV Online (ดูทีวีออนไลน์) People Channel the popular website of anti-government red shirt protesters in Thailand has now been blocked by government authorities. This move could further strain relations between the red shirt movement and the Thai government which is believed to have connections to influential groups in Thailand.

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