Thailand's thin-skinned king demands Youtube take down Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2V3F0)
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")