Social media users violating emergency orders will be reported to police: ministry
The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society said on Monday that it had ordered its permanent secretary to report to police those who violate the social media use orders under the state of emergency announced last week.
When asked if police had contacted the ministry to close websites or Facebook pages which urged people to join the protest, Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta answered that his subsidiary will report about news agencies that had violated the orders on Monday.
He said that his ministry would contact some Facebook pages to close as soon as possible, if allowed by the court. He said that the ministry was monitoring all users, and over 300,000 URLs have violated the emergency decree.
Asked if the government was effectively silencing people, Buddhipongse explained that the operations against media and social media users would be executed with care. Those who are not obviously wrong would not be prosecuted, he assured.
