Thailand protests: Facebook blocks group with 1 million members for discussing monarchy

Facebook on Monday blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discusses the country’s king, after the Thai government threatened legal action over failure to take down content deemed defamatory to the monarchy.There have been near daily youth-led protests against the government led by the former military junta chief and unprecedented calls for reforms of the monarchy.The “Royalist Marketplace” group was created in April by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a self-exiled…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3098684/thailand-protests-facebook-blocks-group-1-million-members