Thai military junta pressures Facebook, Line to censor on-line posts

Thailand's military government can try and persuade media corporations Facebook and Line to suits court orders to get rid of content it considers harmful to peace and order, a senior official same Sunday.

The junta-appointed NRSA informative  council plans to satisfy executives from the 2 corporations within the next 3 months, member Major General Pisit Paoin told Reuters.

The government has been granted court orders for the removal of content that damages the country and also the autocracy and affects peace and order, that corporations have seldom complied with. The companies would be asked to in future respond quickly to such rulings, he said.

Thailand's military junta has moon-faced recurrent criticism for what rights teams say could be a deepening slide into dictatorship since the military took power in might 2014.

Its previous makes an attempt to urge social media platforms to require down political postings are for the most part ineffective, though the country has blocked thousands of internet sites hosting lese majeste content.

Numbers of individuals inactive below the laws against criticizing the autocracy have conjointly up sharply.

Thai representatives for Facebook and Google couldn't right away be reached for comment.

Thai authorities created an analogous request over content on Jan. twenty two to technology large Google, that owns the YouTube video sharing platform, Pisit said.

Authorities have conjointly progressively cracked down on criticism of the military junta.

A former politician from the Pheu Thai party of kick out Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was charged on Friday for violating the country's laptop Crime Act for sharing on line a video mocking military junta leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha.