How Facebook’s Real Names policy helps Cambodia’s thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters

”Yes, our beaches are the most beautiful, but our leaders are the dirtiest in the world, aren’t they?”

Cambodian dictator Hun Sen’s Facebook photo of himself swimming in the blue Maldives sea. Superimposed over him in white sans-serif lettering on red rectangular backgrounds is a quote from a Cambodian Facebook user: ‘Yes, our beaches are the most beautiful, but our leaders are the dirtiest in the world, aren’t they?’ Image: Hun Sen/Facebook (modified) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=765259764955813&set=pcb.765259798289143&type=3&theater Fair use: https://www.eff.org/issues/intellect

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