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Internet censorship in Burma is classified as selective in the political and Internet tools areas, as substantial in social, and as no evidence of filtering in conflict/security by the OpenNet Initiative in August 2012. [14] [15] Burma is listed as an Internet enemy by Reporters Without Borders in 2011. [16]
As Myanmar gradually expands its technologies and the Internet access, censorship remains a problem, with Freedom House in its 2017 Myanmar country profile stating that "conditions for the media in Myanmar have improved significantly since the country began its ongoing transition from military dictatorship toward electoral democracy.
Anti-coup protesters march during a demonstration against the Myanmar junta's internet restrictions in Yangon on May 12, 2021. ... and built “a mass censorship and surveillance regime,” said ...
Myanmar underwent a communications and technology revolution after 2011 reforms that lifted severe restrictions on the media, mobile phone use, and internet use. The government welcomed international telecom businesses and promoted competition and by 2017, cheap 3G Chinese phones saturated the mobile phone market and the majority of the Burmese ...
Internet shutdowns cost the global economy $5.5 billion in 2021, per digital rights group Top10VPN. Myanmar was the most severely impacted, losing an estimated $2.8 billion to shutdowns.
Myanmar has shut down much of its internet access to curb anti-coup protests, and services like Instagram and Twitter have been blocked. Myanmar shuts down internet to stifle anti-coup protests ...
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org , for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
Pervasive censorship or surveillance: A country is classified as engaged in pervasive censorship or surveillance when it often censors political, social, and other content, is engaged in mass surveillance of the Internet, and retaliates against citizens who circumvent censorship or surveillance with imprisonment or other sanctions. A country is ...