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The Mikado
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« on: December 17, 2011, 09:11:29 PM »
There's a brilliant epilogue to Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities where he discusses the editions of his book around the world.  The Thai lese majeste laws prohibit bad-mouthing any king, anywhere, any time.  Anderson said that the entire second third of the book ended up getting rewritten in the Thai edition and disowned the Thai "royalist" edition of Imagined Communities.
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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2011, 12:09:57 AM »
Quote from: Senator Kalwejt on December 17, 2011, 09:54:53 PM
Quote from: The Mikado on December 17, 2011, 09:11:29 PM
There's a brilliant epilogue to Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities where he discusses the editions of his book around the world.  The Thai lese majeste laws prohibit bad-mouthing any king, anywhere, any time. 

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Did I get it right? So for me saying that, let say, Charles X was a waste of air is making me guilty of lese majeste under Thai laws?

Technically, yes, but you'd probably only be prosecuted if you were clearly using a foreign king as an analogy for a Thai king.
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