The NBTC gives instructions on how to report them using each platform’s tools and then contact them
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BANGKOK – Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), the country’s telecoms regulator is encouraging citizens to report “inappropriate comments†on emails and social media, particularly those posted on Facebook, Line, and YouTube.
Its’s asking for people to “collaborate to suppress inappropriate messages,†without really defining what these are. It includes instructions on how to report them using each platform’s tools and then contact the NBTC.
Tech in Asia spoke with a few internet users in Thailand. They found the leaflet strange, considering there’s already a Technology Crime Suppression Division within the Royal Thai Police that’s responsible for tracking down offensive online content.
The literature comes from Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), the country’s telecoms regulator.
According to Reuters, Thai ISPs started requesting their customers to report “content offensive to the royal institution†a few days after King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on October 13.
In late October, the Bangkok Post said that around “100 web addresses†on YouTube had been blocked for insulting the monarchy in what the government called a “joint blocking effort†with Google.
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