Flinging Facebook insults at Thai monarchy earns fat jail terms
Found on The Register on Saturday, 26 November 2011
The country's Information and Communications Technology minister, Anudith Nakornthap, said that if such users "share" or "like" articles on Facebook that are considered to insult the Thai royal family, they could face sentences of between three and 15 years in jail – as laid out in Thailand's Computer Crimes Act.
In October, a UN human rights expert called on Thailand to amend laws that impose such jail terms on “whoever defames, insults or threatens” the Thai royal family.
That sure won't make people like Bhumibol Adulyadej. Monarchy these days is a dying way of control, and the Internet only makes this change quicker.