Thailand's thin-skinned king demands Youtube take down Chaplain's "The Great Dictator"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DDvRbffeE

Charlie Chaplain's 1940 movie The Great Dictator features one of the greatest anti-authoritarian speeches of all time, so it's no surprise that Thailand's censorship-crazed king is abusing his country's grotesque lese majeste laws to order Youtube to remove clips of Chaplain's masterpiece. (more…)

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