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June 27, 2017 12:37 pm PDT
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Thailand's thin-skinned king demands Youtube take down Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"
Charlie Chaplin'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 Chaplin's masterpiece. (more…)
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