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When YouTube isn't getting on the nerves of Viacom and the English Premier League, it's busy offending entire countries. Like the Thai government, which says it will sue the video-sharing site next week.
The YouTube clips that "ridiculed" the Thai King seemed pretty mild to Westerners, but they were enough to get the site banned in that country. Reposting those clips here also got Mashable.com blocked by some large Thai ISPs. The situation was resolved to some degree when YouTube agreed to block just the offending pages.
Today the situation became even more problematic, with the Thai government saying it has plans to sue YouTube. Sitthichai Phokai-udom, the minister of information and communications technology, told The Associated Press that the government will file suit in a Thai court next week on charges of offending the monarchy. The minister's statement was remarkably blunt: "Thailand is a fairly small country and not the economic or military powerhouse, so we are at the mercy of the greedy businessman in America". (Yeah, Chad, it's all about the Benjamins with you!)