“If we determine that it does, then we make it unavailable in the relevant country or territory
and notify people who try to access it why it is restricted.”
In Indonesia, for example, a proliferation of political propaganda
and fake news on the site over the past year led to government calls for the company to do more to control the problem.
By MIKE IVES and PAUL MOZURMAY 16, 2017
It may also be a gauge of how aggressively the junta plans to enforce an existing lèse-majesté law
— which makes it a crime to insult the king, the queen or the crown prince — under new leadership.
Yet the government’s new demands have presented a distinctly new challenge for the company: While it can say it is following
local laws in taking down videos of the king, its actions may embolden other world leaders to expect the same treatment
“Its main tactic will be to refashion this law, already much abused, into an offensive
weapon designed to eliminate all forms of political opposition,” Mr. Streckfuss said.
The message said that Thailand’s Digital Ministry for Economic
and Social Affairs had sent the company a court order saying the post violated the Computer Crime Act.
