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<p>Royalist Marketplace, a Facebook group of 2.3 million members dedicated to frank discussions of the Thai monarchy, was rendered inaccessible in Thailand last night, according to the group founder.</p>
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<p>A Ministry of Digital Economy and Society representative filed a complaint against a trans woman for sharing a Facebook post of an academic critic of the monarchy. In another incident, a man was charged for a post in the ‘Royalist Marketplace’ Facebook group, according to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights.</p>
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<p>In its February 2021 <a href="https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/February-2021-CIB-Report.pdf">Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report</a>, Facebook says it detected and removed 77 accounts, 72 pages, 18 groups and 18 Instagram accounts originating in Thailand, targeting audiences in the Southern provinces.</p>
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<p>Access to a Facebook group of 1 million monarchy reformists has been restricted in Thailand. Group founder Pavin Chachavalpongpun says “Let’s fight, bitch” as he opens a new group which registers more than 375,000 members in 5 hours. Facebook also says it is preparing legal action against Thai government as its restriction requests may violate international human rights law.</p>
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<p>Puttipong Punnakanta, Minister of the Digital Economy and Society (DES), says that Facebook has violated the Thai Computer Crime Act for blocking only 20 per cent of all illegal content whose removal has been requested by the authorities.</p>
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<div>Would you pay over 200,000 baht for a painting that you cannot hang even in your house? A group of businessmen has won the bid for a portrait of an exiled historian by a satirical cartoon page.
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<div>The police have issued a summons for an anti-junta historian and former rector of Thammasat University for sharing a fake news report about a purse of Prayut’s wife. </div>
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<div>On 23 January 2018, Pol Col Olarn Sukkasem from the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) revealed that investigators had summoned the renowned historian, Charnvit Kasetsiri, to report on Friday.</div>
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<div>Charnvit was accused of disseminating forged computer data likely to cause damage to a third party, a violation the Computer Crimes Act.
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<div>Facebook has complied with a request from the junta to restrict user access to a video posted by an exiled critic of the monarchy, citing Thailand’s newly amended Computer Crimes Act. </div>
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<div>On 4 May 2017, the exiled academic Somsak Jeamteerasakul <a href="https://www.facebook.com/somsakjeam/posts/1302945343092075">announced</a> on his Facebook page that he had received an email from Facebook informing him that one of his posts violates Thailand’s <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/6785">2007 Computer Crimes Act (CCA)</a>.
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<div>Facebook has published a report revealing that the junta requested access to personal information on three Facebook users during the first half of 2016.</div>
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<div>In a secret hearing, a provincial court has revoked bail in a lèse majesté case, ruling that the suspect insulted the authorities in a Facebook post. </div>
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<div>On 22 December 2016, Khon Kaen Provincial Court approved a police request to revoke bail for Jatuphat Boonpattaraksa, <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/6763">the first person charged with lèse majesté under the reign of King Maha Vajiralongkorn</a>. The court conducted the hearing in secret and ruled that the suspect has violated bail conditions.
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