<p>The authorities have reportedly spent 28.4 million baht on a computer programme that targets viewers of lèse majesté content.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/thai/39997802?ocid=socialflow_facebook">BBC Thai</a> reported on 23 May 2017 that the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) spent the money to procure a social network data analysis programme.</p>
<p>A criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for an anti-corruption activist who posted the results of a political survey on Facebook.</p>
<p>On 12 March 2017, Veera Somkwamkid, Secretary-General of the People’s Anti-Corruption Network, posted on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1243026455795204&id=181257625305431">Facebook account</a> that the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Road in Bangkok has approved an arrest warrant for him.</p>
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<div>The authorities have summoned or visited at least six people across the country who follow the Facebook page of an exiled academic.
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<div>The application Line will cooperate with the Thai junta to suppress lèse majesté content during the period of national mourning for the late King, claims Thailand’s Digital Minister.
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<div>Thailand’s state communication board has asked internet service providers to set up 24/7 monitoring centres to search for “inappropriate content” across all social media platforms including Youtube, Facebook, Line and Twitter. </div>
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<div>On 14 October 2016, Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBCT), said that the commission has sent an <a href="http://prachatai.org/journal/2016/10/68355">order</a> to all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Thailand.</div>
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<p>Thai police have refused to press lèse majesté charges against the mother of an embattled anti-junta activist. </p>
<p>Pol Lt Col Sanpetch Noothong, police investigator of the 3<sup>rd</sup> Division of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), submitted a petition to the relevant authorities to cancel the request to detain Patnaree Charnkij, the mother of well-known anti-junta activist Sirawit Serithiwat, <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=1184">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) reported</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Military Court has detained two of <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/the-eight-abducted-junta-critics">the eight junta critics </a>and another political dissident charged under the lѐse majesté law.</p>
<p>The Military Court of Bangkok at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, 11 May 2016, granted custody permission to the police to detain Harit Mahaton and Natthika Worathaiwich, suspects of offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lѐse majesté law. </p>
<p>The Military Court has detained a supporter of <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/the-eight-abducted-junta-critics">the eight abducted junta critics</a>. He is accused by the junta’s legal team of lѐse majesté.</p>
<p>The Military Court of Bangkok on Saturday morning, 30 April 2016, granted police permission to detain Burin Intin, who was arrested by the police on Wednesday evening for <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/node/6091">gathering with 15 other activists to show solidarity with the abducted junta critics</a>.</p>
<div>LINE Corporation has banned cartoon stickers that lampoons the Thai royal family and issued an apology for its lack of “cultural sensitivity”. Meanwhile, the Thai police are searching for the stickers’ creators. </div>
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<div>The sticker set, created by Anna Laurent, believed to be a pseudonym, was removed from the application before 4 am on Thursday. The set is composed of 40 cartoon images, involving six main characters -- a father, a mother and their four grown-up children. A description of the set read ‘A happy family wants to share its emotions with the world . .
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<p dir="ltr">In a move to discipline netizens, the Thai police has set up millions of baht of budget to purchase a new software to monitor social media. </p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.blognone.com/node/77066">Blognone News</a>,The Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) of the Royal Thai Police has announced a bidding to purchase a software to monitor facebook, twitter, and Pantip.com. a Thai-language website discussion forum.</p>
<p>The Thai Court of Justice plans to press charges against anonymous hackers who took down hundreds of websites of the Thai courts in protest against the conviction of two Burmese migrant workers for the murder of two British backpackers on Ko Tao Island.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, 13 January 2016, Suebpong Sripongkul, spokesperson of Thailand’s Court of Justice (CoJ), announced that the Thai authorities will carry out an investigation and press charges against a group of anonymous hackers who on Tuesday night downed at least 297 sites, including Appeal and Criminal Court websites.</p>
<p>Thai Military Court has extended the pre-trial detention of a man accused of creating a copycat Facebook profile under his friend’s name to take revenge by posting lèse majesté messages and images.</p>