U.S. citizen Lerpong Wichaikhammat has begun a two-and-a-half-year jail term in Thailand for insulting the Thai monarchy in a blog post that linked to an banned biography of the king.
In your "Can they actually do that?" moment of the day, the Thai government has issued a warning that anyone who "likes" or "shares" a Facebook comment insulting the Thai Monarchy is committing a crime.
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