Two months after Thailand blocked YouTube over video clips it said insulted the King, a response emerged from its owner, Google, in a letter released by the nation’s communications minister. Google has not commented so far.

According to Reuters, Google has agreed to block four of the 12 clips on the ground that they broke Thailand’s laws against insulting the King. Six others cited by Thailand have been dropped by their creators, or because they violated YouTube’s “code of conduct.”

Two others did not break the law, in Google’s judgment, because they insulted the government, not the King. Kent Walker, the company’s general counsel, explained why in the letter, as quoted by Reuters:

“They appear to be political comments that are critical of both the government and the conduct of foreigners,” the letter said.

“Because they are political in nature, and not intended insults of His Majesty, we do not see a basis for blocking these videos.”

The line drawn by Google’s lawyer has been blurred in Thailand by the military junta that has ruled since last September. The coup was partly justified by a claim that the primer minister had disrespected the revered King, and the new rulers have “assiduously protected the image of Thailand’s King” since then, Time said.

Thailand is satisfied enough to drop plans to sue the company, but also planned to seek information from Google on the users who uploaded the clips, The Bangkok Post said. They might have better luck joining Viacom’s drive to create a “YouTube killer.”

Meanwhile, there’s still no YouTube in Thailand.

On Thursday, a group of Google shareholders urged it to “make special efforts to avoid being seen as complicit in human rights abuses…and not be proactive in censorship.”

They were talking about the company’s agreement to censor results on the Chinese version of Google, but would those shareholders be pleased in the case of Google vs. Thailand?