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Whether pharmaceuticals are cheaper is a mixed bag. Generally name brand drugs that can be purchased from a private pharmacy will be cheaper in Thailand but deeper discounts on generic drugs can be found in the West. Cancer drugs in particular are horrifically expensive in Thailand.

That's making threats against a specific person. Hate speech is usually defined to be things like Holocaust denial or calling for blacks to be put back into slavery.

That's probably the best angle that the government has. That's the reason that the Green Card application includes questions like "have you ever been affiliated with a terrorist group". Of course everyone will answer "no" but later having lied in answering that question can be used as a reason to rescind the Green Card.

I'd like to understand that too. In the US law, is there any distinction between the two?

But the matter does have to go before a judge.

Retired now, was a semiconductor engineer for a US company that had a factory in Bangkok.

Work, but you're the one complaining about Thailand.

What brought you to Thailand in the first place?

I suppose that it the portable router supports 5G and the OP's smartphone doesn't, that might justify the portable router's existence.

Do you know of any examples of that? Some phones are locked to a particular carrier but that's a different issue. And some phones have a faster LTE and 5G implementations than others, but it sounds like a leap of faith to assume that a pocket router would be the fastest of them all.

I guess that I never really listen to the Cars beyond their debut album.

I never noticed that similarity.

Limits on data are a function of the SIM card you buy and the plan that you sign up for, not of the device. In other words, your portable router is also going to be limited by whatever plan the SIM card that you put into has, just as with a smartphone. Swap the Sim cards between your router and the phone and it should be the phone that has unlimited data. I did discover that T-Mobile in the US throttles down hotspot connections to something like 1 Mbps speeds with the prepaid SIM cards but I hadn't heard if any Thai providers doing that. However there are workarounds for that even if it happens, including an android app that prevents your ISP from being able to tell you have set up a Hotspot. If handholding during initial setting was a selling point, you could have just as well walked into an AIS store in a shopping mall, told them what you wanted, and handed them your phone, and you would have been good to go too.

Why buy a pocket router instead of just using your phone to create a Hotspot?

Is this story about visa agents circumventing the 800K baht requirement? I've long thought that some day there would be a crackdown on that but this seems to be about barriers to foreigners opening bank accounts.