The law for speaking negatively about the monarchy is pretty strict. I thought the sentence maximum was up to the king (aka Death penalty) as most matters are.<p>“The courts seem not to recognise the principle of granting defendants the benefit of the doubt. Judges have said accusers did not have to prove the factuality of the alleged lèse-majesté material but only claim it is defamatory. Pleading guilty, then asking for a royal pardon, is seen as the quickest route to freedom for any accused.”<p>Thai people won’t say a thing about the king digitally or in person for fear of the law.<p>How strict the laws are about the royals story: The 1880 queen and her daughter were drowning but no one could save them because looking at or touching the queen was forbidden by commoners. So they drowned while screaming for help.<p><a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand" rel="nofollow">https://wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailan...</a>