re: "Govt living in fear of its own frightful errors" (BP, August 10, 2021)
Dear editor,
Censorship is imposed for only one reason: to impose ignorance so that others cannot form informed opinion of worth on a topic. It is clear from what speech is censored where the ugly truths lurk in Thailand. Equally clear are the sort of people who want to protect those unspeakable truths from just exposure in a transparent, open, and free society that respects democratic principle under which all have an equal right to a voice in determining the form of their society, whence comes their government, and thence the laws of the land.
Unless they are at every level the result of just democratic process, those laws of the land can not be justly imposed on citizens denied by censorship a fair voice in either their creation or their evolution by amendment.
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 August 11, 2021, under the title "Ugly truths lurk" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2163499/cut-the-cameras
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