How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent

Chilling. Governments weaponizing information they have on citizens is textbook dystopian. The lack of oversight on social media platforms that allows this to happen is incompetence at best, and complicity at worst.

As more governments slip into autocracies, similar scenarios are likely happening in other countries as well, and we just don't know about it. The fact that US social media platforms are operated by people supportive of an aspiring autocrat should be a red flag for anyone still using them. Especially for citizens of the US, where the line between the government and corporations gets thinner by the day.

These are truly bizarre and frightening times for anyone outside of this system.

> The lack of oversight on social media platforms that allows this to happen is incompetence at best, and complicity at worst.

The social media platforms are supposed to what? Be a foil to the governments? Replace the government? Be a foil to the governments you don't like? It's unclear what you think the ideal here is.

Err.. be independent of governments.

The thinking of your post betrays an increasingly common totalitarian assumption behind the role of government -- perhaps covid has caused this.

In liberal democracies the government is always supposed to have only a minimal, enabling, role to civil society.