Since the group was blocked on Monday, its exiled creator, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, has created another group that reportedly already has 700,000 members.
The MDES is reportedly seeking cooperation from social media platforms to remove another 1,024 inappropriate URLs, in line with the courts orders. Of these, 661 URLs are on Facebook, 289 are on YouTube, and 69 on Twitter and five other platforms. These URLs need be removed within 15 days from August 27.If the platforms do not comply, they would be liable to pay a fine of 200,000 baht, or 4.7 lakh, along with a daily non-compliance penalty of 5,000 baht .
In the last few weeks, pro-democracy rallies have become commonplace in Thailand, some of which have seen 10,000 to 20,000 protestors.
Thailand criminalises lse majest, that is, insulting the monarch and punishes it with a jail term between three and 15 years.
Facebooks transparency report reveals that the platform had blocked 1,459 posts and 2 pages/groups in response to demands from MDS under lse majest law and Section 14 of the Computer Crime Act that bans content against national security.
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