huridocs-tech Burma restricts political websites

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## author     : declan@well.com
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Here's my report from a trip to Burma and my interview with
Aung San Suu Kyi:
http://www.y2kculture.com/mccullagh/burma.1296.txt

This BBC article was surprisingly mild -- when I was in
Rangoon in '96, a BBC correspondent was beaten up ostensibly
accidentally by the SLORC and deported. Tanks were in the
streets to intimidate student protesters, making
Net-censorship arguably the least of their concerns. And
where political freedom is lacking, so is economic liberty:
one student I stayed with made $20 a month in his full-time
job, about enough to log on probably every decade or two.

-Declan

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_611000/611836.stm

               Thursday, 20 January, 2000, 13:40 GMT
               Burmese ban on political websites
               By regional analyst James Miles

               The Burmese authorities have banned the
               country's internet users from issuing
               material of a political nature.

               Burmese television said the country's only
               authorised internet service provider, Myanmar
               Post and Telecommunications, had outlawed the
               use of sites which were - as it put it -
               detrimental to government policies.

               The regulations will come as no surprise in a
               country that has been among the most hostile
               in Asia towards the internet revolution.

               Burma has lagged behind even some of Asia's
               most authoritarian countries such as China
               and Vietnam in its embrace of the internet.

               [...]




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