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Under the 1941 Printing and Advertisement Act, the [[Royal Thai Police]] Special Branch has the authority to issue warnings to publications for various violations such as disturbing the peace, interfering with public safety, or offending public morals.<ref>[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/776.htm "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Thailand"], Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 23 February 2001</ref>
According to a study by the Political Science Library at [[Thammasat University]], from 1850 to 1999, 1,057 books and periodicals were officially banned by publication in the ''[[Royal_Thai_Government_Gazette|Royal Gazette]]'', including many books among the "100 books every Thai should read". Many titles reflect their era of anti-communist fervor but were published both in Thailand and abroad in Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Bahasa, English, German, French, and Spanish.
Historically, this and other acts have been used to severely restrict press freedom, especially during the military governments of [[Plaek Pibulsonggram]], [[Sarit Dhanarajata]], and [[Thanom Kittikachorn]] (up to 1973). Books on Thai [[feudalism]], the monarchy, and religion viewed by the Thai government as disruptive were banned and their authors imprisoned.<ref>[http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/music/song4life/jit_pumisak.htm "Jit Pumisak"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051125175732/http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/music/song4life/jit_pumisak.htm |date=25 November 2005 }}, Songs for Life, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University (NIU). Retrieved 23 August 2012</ref> A student-led uprising in 1973 led to a brief period of press freedom, until a violent military crackdown in 1976 resulted in a major clamp-down. The 1980s saw the gradual thawing of press censorship.
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