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American in Thailand faces jail time for insulting the monarchy​

Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University, was first summoned by police last week to hear the charges against him, including computer crime.

Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in the northern province of Phitsanulok, was first summoned by police last week to hear the charges against him, including violating the Computer Crime Act, which covers online activity.

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American in Thailand faces jail time for insulting the monarchy

Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University, was first summoned by police last week to hear the charges against him, including computer crime.
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Since the military coup of 2014, Thailand has developed one of the most sophisticated systems of digital surveillance in Southeast Asia.

The establishment of the “cyber warfare” unit was assisted by Italian online surveillance firm Hacking Team and the Israeli software company Nice Systems. A WikiLeaks report revealed that the “cyber warfare” unit had the ability to “covertly collect emails, text messages, and phone call histories; perform keystroke logging; uncover search history data and take screenshots; record audio from phone calls; use phones to collect noise and conversations by remotely switching on the telephone; activate the telephone’s camera; and hijack telephone GPS systems. The Remote Control Software (RCS) was capable of utilizing a number of known and “Zero-Day” (unknown to anti-virus companies and previously unused) hacking exploits against software including Adobe Flash.” Additionally in 2015, WikiLeaks published information concerning the Thai military’s employment of Hacking Team for an additional project in the restive southern border provinces. The firm went to Pattani province to install a new RCS named Galileo in the summer of 2015, according to emails leaked by WikiLeaks.

Thailand’s Creeping Digital Authoritarianism

Since the military coup of 2014, Thailand has developed one of the most sophisticated systems of digital surveillance in Southeast Asia.
thediplomat.com
 
Cypress said:
We have a poster from Thailand who has all the time in the world to make complaints about American politics, but has never found the nerve to say a single bad thing about the totalitarian dictatorship he chooses to live under.
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Because of the law that could put him quite literally in prison there. It's like you didn't pay any attention to the article in the OP and just wanted to go off on yet another rant about how you think someone else should act who is in a circumstance you are not in...
 
“He was accused of publishing a blurb on (Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies’) website in connection with an ISEAS webinar in October 2024 about military reshuffles,” said Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate, an attorney for Chambers and an advocacy lead for Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, according to CNN.

“He denied all charges. He neither wrote nor published the blurb on the website,” Akarachai added.

Last year, a court in Thailand ordered a man to serve an extended sentence for insulting the monarch of up to 50 years.

 
Cypress said:
Then don't complain about how terrible the politics in America are if you willingly choose to live under a ruthless authoritarian police state.
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How "willingly" is it if you get a job that sends you there. Sure he chose to take the job, but did that law exist when he went there?

We do not know his circumstances, but asking someone actually living in the county to say what you want them to say about how the nation is run is asking them to put themselves under risk of imprisonment. The OP talks about some dude that was there that is still in prison for that craptacular law.

Can it be possible that he comes here so that he can participate in some debate over policy that he otherwise cannot? I do know that Canadians and other nations constantly talk about our politics and sometimes even here. More often than not they are not talking about the politics in their own lands, but you don't seem to care unless it is a specific poster in Thailand.
 
Cypress said:
We have a poster from Thailand who has all the time in the world to make complaints about American politics, but has never found the nerve to say a single bad thing about the totalitarian dictatorship he chooses to live under.
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Good thing, I would be very careful. My niece and nephew dive there and they say they are very careful what they say, even as tourist. They do love Thailand, the food, the people and the diving.
 
Damocles said:
How "willingly" is it if you get a job that sends you there. Sure he chose to take the job, but did that law exist when he went there?

We do not know his circumstances, but asking someone actually living in the county to say what you want them to say about how the nation is run is asking them to put themselves under risk of imprisonment. The OP talks about some dude that was there that is still in prison for that craptacular law.

Can it be possible that he comes here so that he can participate in some debate over policy that he otherwise cannot? I do know that Canadians and other nations constantly talk about our politics and sometimes even here. More often than not they are not talking about the politics in their own lands, but you don't seem to care unless it is a specific poster in Thailand.
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He is supposedly retired and willingly chooses to live there.

I would say the same thing to someone who chooses to live in the Russian totalitarian police state, but then has the nerve to complain about the policies of the American Democratic party
 
Damocles said:
How "willingly" is it if you get a job that sends you there.
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I have been offered jobs that would send me to Thailand, Singapore, China, or various places in Europe. "They" seem to want to get me out of the USA.

It makes me nervous, because it reminds me of the stories of people trying to get educated Jews out of Germany before the Holocaust.
 
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