“If we determine that it does, then we make it unavailable in the relevant country or territory<br />and notify people who try to access it why it is restricted.”<br />In Indonesia, for example, a proliferation of political propaganda<br />and fake news on the site over the past year led to government calls for the company to do more to control the problem.<br />By MIKE IVES and PAUL MOZURMAY 16, 2017<br />It may also be a gauge of how aggressively the junta plans to enforce an existing lèse-majesté law<br />— which makes it a crime to insult the king, the queen or the crown prince — under new leadership.<br />Yet the government’s new demands have presented a distinctly new challenge for the company: While it can say it is following<br />local laws in taking down videos of the king, its actions may embolden other world leaders to expect the same treatment<br />“Its main tactic will be to refashion this law, already much abused, into an offensive<br />weapon designed to eliminate all forms of political opposition,” Mr. Streckfuss said.<br />The message said that Thailand’s Digital Ministry for Economic<br />and Social Affairs had sent the company a court order saying the post violated the Computer Crime Act.
