However, there would be no immediate measures to block Facebook, Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of Thailand's telecoms commission, told reporters, adding that bureaucracy had held up the process of removing the 131 impugned content items. "Facebook has cooperated well in terms of taking steps to block the URLs that we asked them to in the past," he added. Last month, Thailand also banned citizens from any contact online with three vocal critics of the monarchy. The junta's latest attempt to block content would not achieve much, said Pavin Chachavalpongpun of Kyoto University, one of the three critics. In 2016, Facebook blocked 50 pieces of content found to have violated the lese majeste law, following government requests.

Source: bd News24 May 16, 2017 06:56 UTC