Whose ‘communication sovereignty’ are we protecting?

Should Thailand work to better control information flows or to improve information literacy? (Photo: Sanook.com)

The Thai people are under threat of being fed lies and being wrongly influenced, and the country is at risk of losing control over its communication channels.

For the safety of the nation’s naïve and impressionable populace, the government must fortify homegrown (read state-operated) communications and information media, lest the Thai people begin forming opinions.