From memory Microsoft was also the first major company to willingly onboard and work secretly with the NSA to deliver mass surveillance and interception of people's private information, data and metadata internationally without their knowledge or consent as part of the PRISM scandal.
Anyone want to help me understand what the issue is with trusting the cert? Is it that the government is becoming a signing authority for Thailand and could secretly connect some users to the government's servers instead of the website they're trying to get to. How wrong am I?
That's right! The government could potentially misuse the certificate and because the root cert is trusted people would not know they are on an insecure or malicious website.