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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I am surprised residents of Thailand are not openly complaining about their government's cooperation with a Communist dictatorship.
    They can't the king doesn't tolerate dissent
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    They can't the king doesn't tolerate dissent
    It would be even more surprising if a resident of Thailand went on the internet to complain about Joe Biden or Barack Obama not standing up sufficiently to China, when their own government is cooperating militarily with China.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    It would be even more surprising if a resident of Thailand went on the internet to complain about Joe Biden or Barack Obama not standing up sufficiently to China, when their own government is cooperating militarily with China.
    Thailand monitors the internet of people living there

    More than one-quarter of Thai people use the Internet. Thailand employs a variety of tactics to monitor and block content, especially lese majeste material, content that constitutes an offense against the dignity of the royal family.

    Around a quarter of Thai citizens are online. Some, particularly those in Bangkok, can access high-speed Internet at home or at cyber cafes. Until 2006, the state-run Communication Authority of Thailand (CAT) operated the nation’s only Internet exchange point. There are now nine exchange points, with the CAT operating only two. In 2010, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) replaced the National Telecommunications Commission as the country’s independent industry regulator. The Senate-appointed commission includes officials from the military, police, bureaucracy, and civil society. The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) oversees ICT policy throughout the country, including those related to Internet filtering.

    https://thenetmonitor.org/country-profiles/tha
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    Thailand has developed one of the most sophisticated systems of digital surveillance in Southeast Asia.

    https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/thai...horitarianism/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    The same way Britain nominally still has sovereignty over Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Bahamas, Belize. Those countries agree to say that Queen Elizabeth is their head of state (on paper) and then they act independently and autonomously in practice.
    That would work. OTOH. maybe not. I could see mainland Chinese flocking to Taiwan and PRC cracking down .
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Thailand has developed one of the most sophisticated systems of digital surveillance in Southeast Asia.

    https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/thai...horitarianism/
    And?

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