Thailand blocks tens of thousands of web pages, including widespread blocks on content critical of the monarchy, and its lèse-majesté law has put people in prison for what they post online.
Every day we open 67 of the world’s biggest sites and apps from home internet connections in Thailand, and record what’s blocked, since when and how.
0 of 67 testedsites and apps with a confirmed block in Thailand
67 of 67 results confirmed in the last 48 hours.
Tests are requested on AIS Fibre and TOT home connections.
Blocking runs through the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES): 2017 amendments to the Computer Crime Act let it and other bodies bring blocking requests, and the government has never said how many URLs courts have blocked. A December 2022 decree also lets the MDES order removals without a court, gives providers 24 hours to act on a public complaint, and ended users’ right to appeal.
Freedom House calls the blocking of content critical of the monarchy widespread, and Meta restricted more than 820 posts in Thailand in the second half of 2023 for allegedly breaking Section 112 of the criminal code, the lèse-majesté law. Charges carry up to 15 years in prison, and Thai Lawyers for Human Rights counts at least 294 people prosecuted since November 2020, in 324 cases, 180 of them over online posts.
Other blocks cover gambling, copyright, national security and what Freedom House calls unauthorized VPN services. The MDES said it blocked 45,024 URLs between October 2022 and December 2023, and over 16,000 sites in April 2024 alone, 6,515 of them for gambling. Political sites are hit too: Change.org was blocked for six months from October 2020 after a petition about the king, and was still blocked by some providers in 2025.
Recent changes add court backing and identity checks. In April 2025 an appeals court upheld the block on no112.org, a petition site calling for the lèse-majesté law’s repeal, and since August 2025 mobile providers have had to confirm people’s identities with biometric data when they register SIM cards. In March 2025 an opposition lawmaker revealed documents indicating that police and military units ran a “Cyber Team” targeting civil society groups.
VPNs in Thailand
Freedom House says websites have been blocked in Thailand for offering unauthorized VPN services, and that internet providers have blocked sites offering circumvention tools in the past.
Key dates
New rules make mobile providers confirm people’s identities with biometric data when they register SIM cards.
An appeals court upholds the block on no112.org, a site hosting a petition to repeal the lèse-majesté law.
The digital economy ministry says it blocked over 16,000 illegal websites in one month, 6,515 of them gambling sites.
A decree lets the digital economy ministry order removals without a court and gives providers 24 hours to act on public complaints.
Change.org is blocked for six months after a petition calling for the king to be declared persona non grata in Germany spreads online.
Amendments to the Computer Crime Act let the digital economy ministry and other bodies bring blocking requests.
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History
Changes in Thailand
No confirmed changes since monitoring began on 29 Sep 2026. When a block appears or lifts, and a re-check on several machines agrees, it shows up here.
Method
How we test
Test machines on AIS Fibre and TOT home connections open each site’s homepage every day.
A failure counts only when it happens twice on the same network, while the site opens from other countries.
A change is published only after re-checks a few hours later and again the next day, on several machines per provider, confirm it. It’s dated from the first sighting.
Test machines caught getting around blocks, through a VPN or a filter-dodging tool, are set aside.
We test websites, mostly over home broadband. Apps, calls and mobile networks can behave differently.
It has been, on and off. The government blocked Change.org for six months from October 2020, after a petition calling for the king to be declared persona non grata in Germany was shared widely on Twitter, and Freedom House says some providers were still blocking it between June 2024 and May 2025. Our daily test finds it opening on AIS Fibre and TOT.
Has Thailand Ever Blocked Telegram?
Not in practice. In October 2020, as protesters used Telegram to organise, a secret order from the digital economy ministry came to light telling internet and mobile providers to block four IP addresses linked to the app, but Freedom House says the plan was never carried out.
Can You Go to Jail for Social Media Posts in Thailand?
Yes. Posts about the monarchy are prosecuted under the lèse-majesté law, which carries up to 15 years in prison, and sentences can add up across cases: after a September 2024 appeals ruling, one online critic faced more than 54 years in total. The Computer Crime Act separately bans putting false or distorted information online.
