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Offline, the lockdowns have been an excuse to pacify activists. There's been ever increasing tensions since the current effectively-a-dictatorship party stole t
by toastal 5y ago
Offline, the lockdowns have been an excuse to pacify activists. There's been ever increasing tensions since the current effectively-a-dictatorship party stole the previous election that was supposed to be the first Democratic election in ages by giving themselves 300 free votes (which ASEAN and most embassies publicly stated was a sham).
Making matters worse is there's very little awareness paid towards one's personal data in Thailand as civil unrest has grown. Everyone's using real names and posting publicly on Facebook, Instagram, LINE, and TikTok has made it cake for the government and doxxers to track people down. We saw like a month ago Google having to take down a public map of anti-monarchy, pro-democracy activists by address around the country. PornHub is now blocked because with the government being able to pressure YouTube into taking down content, PornHub was seen as the best alternative to upload protest videos. A couple weeks ago, a food delivery driver was caught in an act of protest wearing the company jacket and was fired with a statement on Twitter (which in this case led to millions of app and account deletions to the point that the delivery service disabled account deletions).
- wsc981 5y agoI believe PornHub was taken down because it had movies of a very influential person in the country. Not movies that would fit his stature.
- toastal 5y agoWell that too; I can't quite remember but it's still the case that the default alternative platform to post videos that were harder to ban instead of YouTube was on PornHub. For those that don't know, there is/was a video of this person at a pool party with multiple women and if it were anyone else not an eyelid would be batted. Most every YouTube video even talking objectively, like the one by RealLifeLore, about lèse-majesté is blocked inside Thailand because it's easy for the government to coerce Google. There is a lot of specific censorship to save face. The Wikipedia page still exists though (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thai...) which has a section about internet censorship.
- toastal 5y agoAnd for any Thai nationals reading this and looking for more information on how to keep themselves, friends, and family safe from various governments' spying, I recently (today) helped assist with the translations for PRISM Break into Thai (https://prism-break.org/th/ https://prism-break.org/th/).
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