Thailand
Amid political crisis, a deep social
divide, and the uncertainty of royal
succession, Thailand ’ s Internet has
become a contested terrain of various
political views and movements. While
the government has employed both
legal and technological means to
censor, fi lter, and control Internet
content and communication, service
providers and users resort to intermediary censorship and self-censorship,
and dissidents resist the control, using evasion and circumvention tools and
campaigning for freedom and transparency. L è se-majest é , a deep-seated tradition
in Thai society, has become a tool for clamping down on dissenting opinion and
a basis for many online users to integrate state control into their own cyber
behavior as they participate voluntarily in the surveillance and censorship of the
Internet.
RESULTS AT A GLANCE
Filtering
No Evidence
of Filtering
Suspected
Filtering
Selective
Filtering
Substantial
Filtering
Pervasive
Filtering
Political
•
Social
•
Confl ict and security
•
Internet tools
•
OTHER FACTORS
Low
Medium
High
Not Applicable
Transparency
•
Consistency
•