Thailand increases controls on cyberspace through use of lese majeste laws

Date Published

November 28, 2012

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Google Policy Fellow Kieran Bergmann published an article for the Asia Pacific Memo. Asia Pacific Memo is a communications initiative led by the Institute of Asian Research (IAR) at The University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada.

Bergmann’s article looked at Thailand’s lese majeste cases and the government’s method of controlling cyberspace.

Click here to read the article.

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