Lese-majeste - Thai police chief ready to pay foreigners' air tickets.

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So are we to assume that virtually ALL the reasonably-intelligent media websites are blocked in The Land Of Smiles?
There were plenty of instances of serious and incisive reporting immediately after His Majesty passed away.

What percentage of Thais actually read foreign-language media websites? Probably fewer than 2% or 3%.

Back in the day when (a few) people still listened to foreign shortwave broadcasts, all the East European countries and the Chinese and Radio Pyongyang
were broadcasting in English but far fewer than 1% of the British public listened to the broadcasts of Radio Moscow, Radio Berlin International or Radio Peking (as it was
then) and the majority of British people had no idea that such broadcasts even existed - the frequencies of some of the broadcasting stations were advertised in
the ''Daily Worker" and "Challenge" - the journal of the Young Communist League - but very few people other than Scottish pensioners in depressed areas
used to read those publications anyway.

Even during WW2, only a very small minority of British listeners could be bothered to listen to the excellent English-language broadcasts from Germany -
Captain Baillie-Steward's almost-music-hall-parody posh, John Amory's Brummie accent and William Joyce's County Cork snarl, among many more.

Only really determined despotic regimes can censor information from outside; Cuba - for example - simply cannot afford the electricity to jam the broadcasts
of Radio Marti from the USA.
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Here's one of Joyce's broadcasts on German radio to British listeners:



The British press called William Joyce "Lord Haw-Haw" - although that appellation more properly belonged to Captain Baillie-Stewart, who really DID have an
almost-parody upper-class RP accent - and the name stuck, a fine example of lazy and slipshod journalism at its best.

YOUTUBE also features Joyce's very last broadcast, when he was very audibly drunk and probably wondering what the future held for him.
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boozyoldman wrote;

"Only really determined despotic regimes can censor information from outside; Cuba - for example - simply cannot afford the electricity to jam the broadcasts
of Radio Marti from the USA.

Really no need to jam what only an optimistic 2% listen to. The aerostat tethered in/on Cudjoe Key Fl. nicknamed Fat Albertno longer broadcasts. It escaped & crashed many yrs. ago not to be replaced. The one still airborne is used for radar. TARS. It may be or has been decommissioned. IDK for certain.
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I would never disrespect the "man who would be king" by once again watching the youtube video of Foo-Foos birthday party with the Nekeed Thai Princess. Oh! wait a minute, Didn't he divorce her and imprison her family?
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