The Malady of Digital Autocratization in Repressing Critics: The Case of Thailand’s Military Regime

The global outbreak of Covid-19 and its restrictive social regulations have forced nonviolence activists to change their usual on-the-street protest methods that require mass participation.

This sudden disruptive change occurred during the global phenomenon of democracy regression, especially in Southeast Asia. Thailand’s prodemocracy movement in 2020-2021 is one of the examples where high-schoolers and university students demanded monarchy reform and the dissolution of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-Cha’s government.