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Thailand threatens legal action against Facebook over restriction requests

Thailand's digital minister has threatened legal action against Facebook for not complying with the government’s requests to restrict illegal content.
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Bangkok (VNA) - Thailand's digital minister hasthreatened legal action against Facebook for not complying with thegovernment’s requests to restrict illegal content.

The latest warning came after the social network’sauto-translation tool mistranslated a message in a Thai broadcaster's postlive-streaming King Maha Vajiralongkorn's birthday ceremony last week.

Facebook has apologised and temporarily disabled itsEnglish-to-Thai auto-translation.

Puttipong Punnakanta, Thailand's Minister of Digital Economyand Society, said Facebook was not responding fast enough to the Thaigovernment's requests to restrict content.

He also vowed stronger action against the company but didnot elaborate.

Thailand’s law prohibits insults against the monarchy. Inrecent years, authorities have filed court orders along with requests to socialmedia platforms to restrict or remove perceived royal insults and other illegalcontent, including national security threats and copyright violations.

Facebook has said it processes requests from the Thaigovernment the same as any other government./.
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