Why Making Fun of This Guy can Get You LIFE in Prison

this video was made possible by expressvpn start browsing the web securely with three months free by going to expressvpn calm slash real-life floor have you ever written a mean comment about somebody here on YouTube or somewhere else on the Internet if you have the worst thing that's probably ever happened to you is something like the classic Navy SEAL copypasta written back to you but for some other people they've been sentenced to effectively life in prison for doing the exact same thing you see it really all just depends on who the person is that you're making fun of online for example if you're gonna make fun of me down in the comments of this YouTube video the worst thing I can do to you is pin your comment and try my hardest to make you look like a clown but if you're gonna make fun of the king of Thailand however you can face the rest of your life in prison even if you don't live in Thailand and here's how theoretically Thailand is a constitutional monarchy like the United Kingdom or Japan but unlike in those countries the monarchy is not only super super revered but it's also illegal to criticize them the position of the time monarch in the royal family is enshrined in the Thai Constitution which at one point states the king shall be enthroned in a position revered worship and shall not be violated no person shall expose the King to any sort of accusation or action so not only do we have those scary words to work with but section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code also makes insulting or otherwise degrading the king or a member of the royal family a severe criminal offense it states verbatim whoever defames insults or threatens the king the Queen the heir apparent or the regent shall be punished with imprisonment of three to 15 years that punishment of three to fifteen years however is for each insult that a person gives to the King so if you were to hypothetically post five comments on a video such as this one that we're insulting in some nature to the king of Thailand's you would face five counts of three to fifteen years in prison each for a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of 75 years and it's not just Thai citizens who can face such penalties but government has convicted foreigners under the law as well who have traveled to the country afterwards but who even is the king of Thailand they are not allowed to make fun o currently it's this guy named Baha vajira longhorn who ascended to the throne back in 2016 after the death of his father the anti insult law applies to him his queen the current heir apparent and debated Lee every other member of the royal family as well so that's a lot of potential people that the law covers and it also doesn't help that the law doesn't exactly define what an actual insult is it can be applied extremely broadly and anybody is allowed to report anybody else for committing an insults and any report has to always be investigated by the Thai police insults against the monarchy are considered threats to national security in Thailand so here's a few juicy examples from recent history in 2007 a man from Switzerland got aggressively drunk in Chiangmai and began spray painting over some portraits of the king for some laughs he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison although he only served a month before being pardoned and released in 2008 an Australian man wrote a book about the various romantic scandals and entanglements at the Thai royal court the books sold exactly seven copies but that didn't prevent the Thai police from arresting him upon his arrival at the airport in Bangkok during a trip to the country he was sentenced to three years in a Thai prison but was pardoned after only a month and deported in 2009 a Thai woman was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison after she delivered a public speech that mentioned the ruling class of the country in a way that was deemed to be offensive in 2011 an American man was sentenced to two and a half years in jail under the law while he was visiting Thailand for allegedly writing articles online that defamed the king and for posting a link on his blog to a book that was banned in the country he ended up serving seven months before being pardoned in 2012 a Thai man was denied bail on eight separate occasions and sentenced to 20 years in prison because of four text messages he sent from his phone that were deemed offensive to the king in Queen five years in prison for texts he sent in 2015 a 27 year old factory where her in Thailand was arrested under the law for supposedly making sarcastic comments about the king's dog on facebook which for reference looks like this according to the BBC the man had posted multiple photos of the dog that appeared to mock the king in an edition he was also charged with posting the light button next to a doctored photo of the monarch he spent 90 days in prison for the crimes before being released on bail and faced a maximum penalty of 37 years in prison for the Facebook posts his current location and status of the case has been unknown since 2018 however it is also important to note that under the law making fun of or insulting any previous time on arc is also considered a severe criminal offence for an example of that in 2017 a man made a remark while at a thai university forum that he doubted the existence of an epic elephant battle in the 16th century between king norris wan of the thai kingdom of ayothaya and the Crown Prince of Burma this was considered insulting to a previous time on arc even one who had been dead for over 400 years and the man was subject to prosecution by the Thai authorities because of it the case was eventually dropped however but that hasn't prevented other ridiculous claims from being made in 2018 a relatively famous Thai YouTube personality got in trouble under the law for describing a dress worn by the time is universe contestant as ugly unfortunately for her the dress was designed by none other than Princess ceará Vannevar Inari etana the only daughter of the current king vajira this got her into trouble for saying an insulting comment about the work of a princess but others have gotten into far worse trouble for even less in 2017 a 34 year old man was arrested and sentenced to 70 years in Thai prison for simply creating 10 Facebook posts that were each deemed to be insulting to the Thai royal family the Thai Court sentenced him to seven years in prison for each Facebook post which is the harshest sentencing that anybody in the country has so far ever received for insulting them Archy it was effectively a life sentence but it was gracefully commuted in half for him to only 35 years in prison because he confessed to being guilty part of the problem with this law is that the media in Thailand rarely ever report on it or cover active cases because even simply doing that can result in charges of insulting the monarchy for yourself so I realized that even by creating this video on YouTube I Eve potentially opened up a can of worms and gotten myself into some legal trouble in Thailand that could potentially restrict my ability to visit the country in the future even though I feel like I haven't been insulting or degrading in this video at all and I've simply only been reporting facts the facts themselves can be considered insulting however if you were to hypothetically leave an insulting comment below and you ever go to Thailand afterwards you could potentially face jail time there and if you write multiple insulting comments you could even end up facing the rest of your life in prison in Thailand if you ever visit afterwards and get caught YouTube itself has even been blocked in Thailand on multiple occasions for videos exactly like this one and I already know that this video is almost certainly going to be immediately blocked there you see Thailand and YouTube worked out their differences a long time ago so that rather than blocking the entire website their YouTube just agrees to block potentially offensive or harmful videos in Thailand for them seeing as how other videos featuring far more minor content than this one have been blocked under this agreement in the past it's safe to say that this one will be too Internet censorship is not only a pervasive issue in Thailand or even on YouTube but across the entire world and across every website if you want to be able to access anything on the internet wherever you are or if you believe in a free internet and you want to do and see anything you want online you should use Express VPN I'm really excited to have them sponsoring real-life lore because I've already been using expressvpn now for years and it's helped me out in so many different situations before it's just the best VPN of the many different ones I've tried because it's always simple easy and reliable and with more people working from home now VPNs are as important as ever to make sure that what you're doing online stays secure expressvpn asurs 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Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020