Thailand

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Thailand binds a private film-exhibition licensee and a private film rental, exchange, or sale licensee to an age-based access restriction under the Film and Video Act, B.E. 2551 (2008), whose rating system reserves its most restricted viewable category to persons twenty years of age or older and requires the category to be displayed and enforced at the point of admission or sale. No other reviewed instrument reaches an online or on-demand service, a social media platform, or an app store.

The Computer Crime Act B.E. 2550 (2007) and the Child Protection Act B.E. 2546 (2003) bind any person to general criminal or protective prohibitions rather than a service duty. The Broadcasting and Television Businesses Act B.E. 2551 (2008) gives a television licensee a content-suspension duty naming no age threshold.

The Royal Decree on the Operation of Digital Platform Service Businesses B.E. 2565 (2022) registers a digital platform service provider and sets transparency and standards requirements for that registration, and names no minor-access or age-verification duty.