The program trains high school and university students nationally in ultra-royalist ideology via workshops.
Its two main objectives are indoctrinating Thai youth with ultra-royalist values and creating a youth-based nationwide network dedicated to detecting and reporting lèse-majesté violations through online surveillance.
To create a Cyber Scout volunteer network... that observes... [online] behavior that is deemed a threat to national security and to defend and protect the royal institution.
They receive ideological instructions on the history and importance of the Thai monarchy and are trained in how to use Facebook;[4] they are incentivized through a points-based system.
[8] The Cyber Scouts' tactics includes befriending potential suspects on Facebook and initiating conversations on sensitive topics.