. . .The Thai government has banned access to the YouTube video-uploading website after it broadcast material critical of the country's king.
Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said the site was banned after a 44-second film showing graffiti over the king's face was aired.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 79, is revered and it is forbidden to insult him.
The ban follows the jailing for 10 years of a Swiss man after he pleaded guilty to charges of insulting the Thai king.
Oliver Jufer, 57, was arrested last December after drunkenly spray-painting posters of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the northern city of Chiang Mai.
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