Thailand Protesters United To Save Pornhub After Government's Online Porn Ban

On Tuesday, Thailand’s government announced the ban on Pornhub along with 190 other sites for pornography. The decision has stirred national outrage and protests over censorship.

According to Puttipong Punnakanta – the country’s digital minister, the ban is to limit access to gambling and porn websites which are outlawed by Thailand’s cybercrime laws.

After the ban was made public, #SavePornhub immediately became trending on Twitter with Thai users criticizing the decision.

Thailand’s sex industry is well-known worldwide and it is also one of the countries contributing the most views to Pornhub last year.

According to a pornography site, Thai users on average spend 11 minutes and 21 seconds longer on the site than users in other parts of the world.

Anonymous Party – a Thai activist group, said they wanted Pornhub back because people were entitled to choices.

According to Top10VPN – an Internet research company, there is a 640% growth in searches for VPN (Virtual Private Networks), which will help to circumvent the ban, from Thailand.

Pornhub was made inaccessible from Monday in the country.

Many Internet users question the decision, asking whether the ban is to protect Thai people’s morals or because Pornhub features some compromising images of the royal family.

In the last few months, Thailand has been crippled by several protests demanding the reduction of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s influence as well as the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

The hashtag translating #HornyPower can be seen everywhere on Twitter Thailand following the ban on Pornhub. The social media site is also flooded with memes and comments saying that if people didn’t hate the government before, they probably do now.

Manushya Foundation director Emilie Pradichit said the ban showed that Thailand was now under a digital dictatorship with young people not allowed to watch, do, or say online what they want.

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