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Thai 'cyber scouts' patrol web for royal insults

Unread postby mattduke » Sat 14 May 2011, 13:09:52

Volunteer 'cyber scouts' are the Thai government's latest weapon to root out potential lese majeste offenders. They scan the Internet pages looking for anyone who might be saying anything slightly negative about the monarchy.

True patriots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJeSS8-LXc
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Re: Thai 'cyber scouts' patrol web for royal insults

Unread postby nobodypanic » Sat 14 May 2011, 13:17:06

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any way to e-mail this to the 'cyber scouts'? :-D
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Re: Thai 'cyber scouts' patrol web for royal insults

Unread postby Sixstrings » Sat 14 May 2011, 17:17:55

Yikes.. according the video, the news website owner could face 70 years in prison for failing to remove anti-royal reader comments from the site quickly enough. 8O

"People are encouraged to inform on others" who "insult" the royals -- sheesh, this is worse than communism.
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Re: Thai 'cyber scouts' patrol web for royal insults

Unread postby Novus » Sun 15 May 2011, 02:48:13

nobodypanic wrote:Image
any way to e-mail this to the 'cyber scouts'? :-D


Non Westerners might not know the context of the machine. Maybe something a little more graphic.

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