Posted on 02/06/2021 8:18:58 AM PST by Navy Patriot
The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said.
The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook, which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, until Feb. 7.
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology did not immediately answer a request for comment, but said previously it had blocked Facebook for the sake of “stability”.
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Jack has a sad 😥
If Twitter and Instagram don’t like it, they can start their own Myanmar.
It would be nice to live in a first world country like Myanmar, instead of a third-world Mitthole like the United States, where a bearded homeless meth dude and a replica of Data from Star Trek run the country...
Don’t forget the scumbags at FARTbook.
Burma!
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They blocked Fecesbook, too...
It sounds like Facebook and Twitter are being blocked because they are allowing their users to question the INTEGRITY of the election there, when we all know there’s never any fraud.
Seems fair to me.
5h3 cancel crew gets canceled, how sad 😆
They’re doing the same thing @Jack did to American conservatives. Twitter set the example. They shouldn’t complain if fellow fascists and military dictators follow suit.
Can we do the same, please?
Coming here soon. But it will be worth it.
In the Military take-over election, who are the good guys? I really haven’t followed except, I think the “winner” was a Hillary backed person.
However if WE want to win in this situation, we can, WE can be 100% None Of Our Business Guys.
The deposed president was in bed with China.
Various military dictators have ruled Burma, most brutally, for over 50 years. After taking over in 1962, their crackpot policies sunk the country into a socialist quagmire of poverty. They ruthlessly drove minorities (Mon, Rohingya, Karen, etc) from their land, committed more than their fair share of atrocities, and of course got rich in the process.
Following the 2015 election, pro-democracy dissident and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi came into power as a “civilian government” was formed. But. Big but ... she was forced to share power with the military thugs, so it wasn’t all roses or all that wonderful, or even all that civilian or democratic. Still, it was better than what had gone before, with more freedom and better economic opportunity for ordinary people of the correct ethnicity.
The military kept on their merry way persecuting minorities, however, with the 2016-2017 ruthless pogram against the Rohingya carried out on a scale exceptional even for Burma (gang rapes, massacres, burning people out of their villages, forced labor, all their usual things).
In 2019, the US (under Trump) sanctioned Min Aung Hlaing (Burma’s new Dear Leader now after the coup) for atrocities committed against the Rohingya.
See here:
Suu Kyii has fallen out of favor with Hillary since being forced to defend the military against genocide charges, by the way.
There is no perfectly good side in Burma. There is a brutally nasty side (Min Aung Hlaing).
I’m not sure why the coup, but it could be Min Aung Hlaing was alarmed at Suu Kyi’s mass popularity and feared loss of power from proposed constitutional reforms (military retained considerable power under the new constitution), or it could be he just felt all dissed by her. Loss of face. Stranger things have happened there.
The military have increased ties with China in recent years, and so has Sun Kyii since her fall from grace in the so-called “international community”. Burma is of considerable strategic importance to China (pipelines, port, etc) so it will be interesting to see how China reacts. So far they are calling the coup “ a reshuffling of the cabinet”.
Agree!
However if WE want to win in this situation, we can, WE can be 100% None Of Our Business Guys.
Agree we should not poke our noses in, and certainly should not intervene militarily, but it is our business when it comes to our strategic interests vs China's.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-03/toppling-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-puts-china-in-a-tricky-spot/13115916
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