Panthongtae against Line tapping
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's nephew Panthongthae Shinawatra posted on Facebook: "I'm really against TCSD's decision to introduce measures that will regulate the Line application by citing impacts on national security.
"Police in this age must be friendly to the people. Do not propose ideas that imitate the spokespersons’ team of the Democrat Party. It’s not good."
Panthongtae went on to say that he does not believe these measures will get government backing, adding that he uses Line to communicate with his father Thaksin and his aunt, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, on a daily basis.
The application, he explained was a neutral medium – like a road, that cannot be faulted for bad drivers or traffic violators. He added that this news reminds him of the time when a deputy spokesperson of the Democrat Party proposed that Facebook be blocked to curb anti-monarchist messages, which led to widespread condemnation.
