Posts Tagged with ‘myanmar’

The BBC has an interesting article today based on a report out of the University of Washington. The report notes that 64 people have been arrested since 2003 due to blogging activities, which doesn't sound like a very large number, does it? However, three times as many people were arrested last year than were in 2006, which may imply that blogger arrests are on the rise.
The report indicates that the majority of blogger arrests take place in Egypt, China, and [...]

Citizen journalism has been a hot topic across the blogosphere since 9/11, only growing more apparently useful during the resulting Iraq war and the current election. Citizen journalists are the reason imprisoned bloggers have been freed, and through social media like Twitter the citizen journalist has helped stop everything from voter fraud to African poachers.
YouTube recently introduced an entire channel for citizen journalism and reporters, causing many to applaud it for its foresight. While I agree that a channel devoted [...]

If you've been following Laura Fitton on Twitter (@Pistachio), you've probably seen a lot of links with news about the cyclone and resulting aftermath in Myanmar. And the junta running the Myanmar government doesn't want its citizens seeing the information behind those links. Actually, they don't want anyone to see them.
I've mainly been following the story on Irrawaddy, and the news is not good. The junta is delaying aid to people suffering, sometimes to make it look as if [...]

The issue of the “Great Firewall of China” is nothing new, but it becomes an issue when you have legions of foreign journalists and tourists arriving for the Summer Olympics this summer in Beijing. The Olympic organizing committee expects 20,000 foreign press members alone to arrive in a country where the Internet is locked down, stripped of most foreign news sites, links to human rights groups, and anything the government deems “subversive.”
Wang Hui, head of media relations for the organizing [...]

There was a little-noticed bit of news out of Myanmar this week; a blogger, Nay Myo Latt, was arrested after writing about what is happening within the country, including increased loss of freedom following last fall's protests and subsequent government crackdown
As a blogger, I see stories like this fairly regularly coming out of countries with much more oppressive government controls of what people can do and say online. In Myanmar, this arrest is symptomatic of a much larger issue. I [...]

Recently, many, many Buddhist monks began protesting day after day the actions and rule of the military junta currently installed as the de facto government of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, a nation located in Southeast Asia. The country’s main force of power, has so far decided to let those walking the streets to continue walking the streets unimpeded, fearing national and international condemnation if it were to take action against the clear message of resistance.
And interestingly enough, more and [...]