NBTC gets tough on insult sites

The national telecom regulator on Monday sent an urgent letter to each of the local operating units of Facebook, YouTube, Line and Twitter asking the world’s popular sites to block websites insulting the monarchy.

“We need serious cooperation from Facebook and YouTube to immediately block the existing 120 webpages that we found posting inappropriate content on the famous social network and the video-sharing sites,” said Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

Full story: Bangkok Post

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