re: "11 charged over hoax news stories" (BP, February 25)
Dear editor,
The story of a dastardly plot to increase the military conscription period was so obviously fake news that the response puzzles. For fake news to harm, it must first be believed. Would the authorities have it believed that this fantasy really was in fact believable? To whom? Why? How?
It seems, prima facie, as credible as asserting that the governing politicians overthrew the supreme legal pillar of the nation to protect the rule of law, or that they became dictators to protect democracy. Is it really being suggested that Thai citizens are prone to these sorts of beliefs? That would indeed be a sad indictment of Thai education.
What will we next be expected to believe that the Thai nation uncritically believes absent evidence?
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 February 27, 2019, under the title "Sad indictment" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1635786/show-of-politics
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