I've been told that in the political world over there animal rights is not much of an issue and that the animal protection laws there are quite poor and the authorities indifferent
For instance, if you go about in Bangkok you will be pestered by scumbags offering you wild animals to pose with for a photo - such animals are poached from the wild and subdued with drugs otherwise it would be impossible to pose with them. People do this openly and without consequence
Also, specifically regarding monkeys I have been told that many view them as worthless vermin so don't value them at all - whilst knowing that Westerners tend to like them and find them cute
I will say this as someone who cares about animals and has lived in countries with weak animal welfare laws, where any concerned person pretty much has to act against abuse individually due to the underfunding and relative scarcity of animal rights organizations as well as the lack of proper legal recourse against animal abuse:
Many people like me see abusive treatment of animals and do what we can when we can, but without a legal framework or any real legal procedure to crack down on such things, what we do is, at best, limited to individual efforts, and we keep seeing things that profoundly disgust and disturb us simply because we can only address so much abuse before our hands become tied due to legal, financial, and political limitations.
This is why I specifically responded to your statement about Thailand. I can relate to caring about animals in a country with a dire need for more animal rights laws. I know I'm far from unique or alone in trying my best and still feeling highly limited under such circumstances, too, hence my objection to painting the average citizens with the brush of the animal abusers and lack of proper animal rights laws.
Parenthetically, I don't know who told you the things you detailed in your post, but I think it goes without saying that judging the circumstances in a whole country requires much more than word of mouth or anecdotes, although they may still be representative of a
subset of the population. Either way, though, what I said above stands.
I won't make any further posts on this tangent so as not to derail the thread. I hope reporting the videos to Facebook and the SPCA causes them to be taken down and leads to finding and stopping whoever made them in the first place from hurting animals.
I've never been able to contact anyone in support, despite trying so many times. It's much the same with Twitter/X. I think it's almost all automated.