Fuller, Thomas and Kevin Drew. "Thai Message Board Manager Is Given Suspended Prison Sentence." The New York Times, May 30, 2012.
From the article: "A Thai court sentenced the manager of an
Internet message board to a one-year suspended prison term on Wednesday for
comments posted by users that insulted the Thai royal family. The sentence was
immediately condemned by Google and human rights groups. The manager of the
site, Prachatai, a popular
forum for discussions about politics and culture, was convicted of
lèse-majesté, as royal insults are known, under Thailand’s Computer Crimes Act. Courts in Thailand
have jailed people convicted of lèse-majesté with increasing frequency in
recent years, but the verdict on Wednesday was unusual in that the defendant,
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, was not the author of the offending comments; she was
just the Web master of the site that hosted them." Read more
