YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's (mee-an-MAWRS') military government has restored Internet access and relaxed a nighttime curfew, a partial easing of its crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
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The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIF)- an organisation created to help people in China bypass Government censorship of the Internet, says that Burmese web surfers have discovered its facilities and are using them to circumvent Internet censorship amid the recent crackdown by the Myanmar military junta.
The Global Internet Freedom Consortium was formed in 2006 as an alliance of organisations developing and deploying anti-censorship technologies for Internet users in oppressive regimes. The Consortium says it partners "have contributed significantly to the advancement of information freedom in China."
According to GIF, two of its member companies - UltraReach Internet Corp (UR) and Dynamic Internet Technology received over 120,000 average daily hits from IP addresses originating from Burma in September, a sharp increase from less than 40,000 back in August.
Excerpted from Burmese bloggers and surfers discover anti-censorship web technologies
The National's slow drone song.
4 comments:
That's great news! Now the Burmese can get their hot ass in fishnets again.
However, while the junta claims internet access is restored, I still haven't seen much activity on my Burmese blog feeds.
Where are the fish?
Timing is everything.
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