TIL: There is currently someone in jail for 50 years in Thailand for insulting the king on social media. Thailand still has Lèse-majesté laws from 1908, which is the strictest defamation law in the world. Even insulting the King's pet or attempting to insult the King leads to decades of jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand
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