Content on Facebook is being censored in Thailand in accordance with what the government views as acceptable. The nation doesn't allow people to criticize the royal family. In cases where high-profile users have posted "controversial" content, their posts are being blocked by Facebook.
One example is a post from Andrew MacGregor Marshall, a former Reuters correspondent and a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. A post from Marshall was censored in Thailand, though it remains available elsewhere.
Marshall also wrote a book about the Thai royal family in 2014. It was banned by the government for being a "danger to national security and peaceful and orderly society."
Other posts have also been affected. Facebook says it restricted access to at least 10 posts in the first half of 2016. It hasn't released data for the second half of the year.
Part of the censorship may be coming from a drop in freedom connected to a 2015 coup.
Internet freedom declined in 2016 as the military leadership continued its efforts to codify censorship and surveillance powers through legislation,- Freedom House (think tank)
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