Thai Facebookers warned not to 'like' anti-monarchy groups

[dipsydoodle]

Source: The Guardian

A government minister in Thailand has warned Facebook users that anyone pressing the "like" button on posts that might be offensive to the monarchy could be prosecuted under the country's strict lèse-majesté laws.

The warning was given two days after a Thai criminal court sentenced Amphon Tangnoppaku, 61, to 20 years in prison for sending text messages deemed insulting to the country's queen.

Amphon was found guilty on four counts and sentenced to five years' consecutive jail on each charge.

Thailand's laws against lèse-majesté (insulting a monarch) are the most severe in the world. Even repeating the details of an alleged offence is illegal.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/25/thai-facebookers-warned-like-button

[rfranklin]

1. As a kid I was reprimanded for drawing beards on the King on stamps...

Guess I got off really easy on that one.

[saras]

2. Good thing their law doesn't apply to the rest of us

It baffles me how this is not controversial worldwide, when so many lesser oppressions are.

[bemildred]

3. Another country being run into the ground by authoritarian twits.

One is tempted to go and like all the websites one can find that dump on the King.

[freshwest]

4. Free trade didn't 'bring democracy.' Insert definition of 'thought police' here...