re: "Thailand's internet freedom 'in decline'" and "Anti-coup elements in the crosshairs" (BP, November 16)
Dear editor,
Two reports in the Bangkok Post of November 16 unhappily complement each other. In "Anti-coup elements in the crosshairs," Thai authorities boast "that many [with dissenting opinions] have already been detained," solidly confirming the Freedom House report that Thailand's internet freedom of speech has been downgraded to "not free," joining the likes of the repressive Russia, Myanmar and China.
The ruling Thai politicians making up a rule of law to force their agenda on the nation plainly do not want and are not willing to allow that Thai citizens actually understand or even be aware of matters of great importance to the Thai nation, the sole reason for such censorship against free speech being to enforce ignorance on the censored topics so that lawful opinion is untested, unchecked, unsubstantiated, and hence worthless.
Bizarrely, this entails that foreigners and those outside of Thailand have a better chance of understanding what is going down inside Thailand than any captive domestic Thai citizen is lawfully allowed to have under current Thai rule of law. Reasonable, rational people must wonder: Why is this Thai government terrified of Thai citizens having informed opinions of worth on important Thai affairs?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on November 17, 2017, under the title "Censorship blues" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1362055/censorship-blues
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