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Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitter over content (reuters.com)
11 points by elorant on Sept 26, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> Thailand has a tough lese majeste law prohibiting insulting the monarchy and a Computer Crime Act that outlaws information that is false or affects national security has also been used to prosecute criticism of the royal family.

Well, that’s that then I guess? As long as the posts are made by Thai citizens then their government should probably get the final say no matter how dumb the laws may sound to me.




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