“For me, it’s not in line with the human rights perspective. Some people also manipulate the idea of social punishment, using it as a title, just to individually express their anger towards someone else they don’t like.” (FGD_02) 3 I don’t know 21 19 Totally Disagree Somewhat disagree 11 13 Neutral THERE IS ROOM FOR IRREVOCABLE HARM “I have seen military family photos, where they make bloody marks on the children, almost mutilating them in the photo with red paints and so on. These are all examples for me for social punishment. Also recently there has been a lot of news where a whole dalan (informer) family were executed – murdered, by the PDF. Not just young people, but a whole family including elders. In the beginning it was imaginary, posting photos with red paint but now it has turned into actually going into people’s homes and murdering them, there is no law now.” (FGD_05) (Female) “Some people are threatened physically because of it (social punishment), even death. Some people are accused of being informers to the military and when that person is accused, he or she can face death threats and life and death situation. Nobody can properly check whether they are really an informer or not. I’ve been seeing these incidents. There are also some famous actors and actresses who did not join the CDM, and they may support the revolution Somewhat agree 20 Totally agree 0 5 10 15 20 25 Figure 7: Survey responses regarding restrictions on hate speech Survey respondents were asked to rate their agreement with the following statement: “Hate speech must be tolerated for the sake of maintaining freedom of expression” behind the scenes, but not do it publicly, but other people don’t know that, and when they don’t know it they shame them for not publicly joining the situation. That’s why we need to understand everyone’s situation. When one actor doesn’t speak out publicly about the coup many people criticize him and some people go further than that, using even the element of ethnicity, and it can lead to more serious consequences.” (FGD_04) IT’S COMPLICATED! “The way I see FoE, first it’s very fundamental to a democratic society, everyone should have an input, everyone should be able to say their opinions, what you think is right what you think is wrong. I believe we shouldn’t stop or censor even abusive language and hate speech. If we censor that kind of speech, we cannot advance and progress, because we need to have that kind of debate.” (FGD_07) (Male) 33