Sunday, October 23, 2016

Thailand presses Google over online royal insults...

Google has agreed to co-operate with the removal of online content insulting Thailand's monarchy, the country's deputy prime minister says.

Prajin Juntong said he had met Google representatives to complain about material found using the search engine and on YouTube, a Google subsidiary.

Google said it was following its existing policies on content removal.

Thais, who have the some of strictest lese majeste laws in the world, are mourning King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Mr Juntong said more than 100 pieces of content insulting to the monarchy have been found on Google services since he died on 13 October. Full story...

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