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Community radio stations and websites will be subject to closer scrutiny for possible lese majeste content.
The Internal Security Operations Command is taking a closer look at community radio stations and websites broadcasting and publishing content which could be deemed offensive to the monarchy.
Isoc's 6th Operation Centre, which has responsibility for promoting royal projects, has been instructed to strengthen monitoring work.
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Red-shirt supporters have expressed dismay over ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's call for them to set aside their anger and frustration over social and legal injustices for the sake of national reconciliation.
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Discussion 21 : 16/04/2011 at 10:49 AM21
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Abbub disc20:You said it all.Excellent
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Discussion 20 : 15/04/2011 at 07:06 PM20
WAKEUP: Your humanity springs forth with every comment. I applaud your compassion and sense of fair play. Your love of your fellow man and woman. Now irony aside, you do not really get it, do. No, you don't. The problem is not for foreigners. Most of us are nor so stupid nor so arrogant as to risk prison for something that (in a sense) does not concern us. The problem is for Thai people. Thais should not have to risk being jailed for ten or fifteen years when others abuse the existing laws for their own benefit. I find it odd, when Americans or Europeans tell Asians, or Blacks to leave they are considered racist; xenophobic. Yet here you are suggesting anyone who is foreign and disagrees with a law (not breaks the law, simply disagrees) should leave the country. I for one am married, have a family and have invested in the country. I never break this law. I do disagree with it though. I do not appreciate being told to leave.
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Discussion 19 : 15/04/2011 at 04:47 PM19
What a confusing country. Why does the 6th Operation Centre of the Internal Security Operations Command have responsibility for promoting royal projects???
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Discussion 18 : 15/04/2011 at 03:35 PM18
People should behave themselves, it is the business of Thailand, not load of farang tourists who learned of Thailand from a website since the introduction of the internet, the Thai's are well aware of this law. In the USA you can be arrested for looking at someone or just standing in the wrong place, in some African countries you can be arrested for passing wind. So what is all the fuss, obey and respect the law or go home.
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Discussion 17 : 15/04/2011 at 03:20 PM17
Here is a suggestion to these foreigners in here who don't like it, the airport is called Suvarnabhumi - you can leave anytime you would like - don't let the door hit you on the way out. Go back to your perfect democratic utopias, where this "never" happens. US and UK have prisons full of people arrested without charge, held without trial, - they even have prisons in countries they have illegally occupied for years! What hypocrites. Don't like it get out!
Discussion 16 : 15/04/2011 at 03:15 PM16
When UDD/PTP has on and off toyed with armed insurrection and "people's war" and if ever you read their propaganda you would realize this is far from a "witch hunt." These people are trying divide and destroy the country and rebuild it with their ochlocratic personality cult. Try to think about this beyond but the most superficial reasoning.
Discussion 15 : 15/04/2011 at 03:07 PM15
Thaksin is purposefully using this angle in his bid to overthrow the government and the entire system. Read UDD publications and you will see they are not being shy about it. That's what this is in response to - not legitimate opposition - but a fugitive led campaign to divide and destroy the country. They are intentionally trying to create division and bloodshed - like they've been doing since day one.
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Discussion 14 : 15/04/2011 at 01:27 PM14
I dislike censorship, and I beleive the LM laws as they stand are counter productive and open to abuse. I once expressed the view, to a very modern and liberal thinking Thai friend of mine, that the royal family are unlikely to be offended by the internet ravings of teenaged political extremists. She responded to my point by saying 'no but I would be offended'. I think this is the point that people miss here. The overwhelming majority of Thais abhor the idea of the Monarch being insulted, and do not wish to be exposed to such insults. Reforming the law is the answer, not abolishing it.
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Discussion 13 : 15/04/2011 at 01:26 PM13
when the thai people begin a revolution against this criminals? still want live under the dictatorship? wake up thailand we live in 2011 no on 1300 wake up
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Discussion 12 : 15/04/2011 at 01:23 PM12
Let's face it, NOBODY is insulting the royal institution in these LM cases. It's all about the "establishment" shutting up the opposition.
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