NCPO watching UDD’s online activities
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The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is keeping a close watch on attempts to set up a referendum anti-fraud centre on Facebook and would enforce relevant laws if needed, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Monday.
The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) vowed to open its anti-fraud centre on Facebook after its principal centre in Bangkok as well as some others in the provinces were shut by the authorities on Sunday.
Prayut said the NCPO is working with lawyers to consider the legal aspects against such an act, and would arrest concerned people if they were found to have broken the laws.
Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan also threatened to take legal action against the UDD if it disseminated distorted information on social media.
He said that UDD leader Jatuporn Prompan may continue the centre’s activities through Facebook as he had vowed earlier, “But he would be arrested if he distorts the truth”, he warned.
