News From Myanmar
Seems like there’s turmoil just about everywhere these days. Does any of this strike home with anyone here?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-faces-reckoning-myanmar-blocked-military-rcna249
The military of Myanmar has ordered the complete shutdown of Facebook in that country.
From the article: The Myanmar military’s shutdown of Facebook access following the ouster of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi caps years of tension between the social media company and the most powerful institution in a nation where Facebook is used by half the population.
The junta on Wednesday banned Facebook until at least Sunday after the regime’s opponents began using it to organize. A new civil disobedience page had gained nearly 200,000 followers and the support of Burmese celebrities in the days after the coup, while a related hashtag was used millions of times.
“The Tatmadaw sees Facebook as their internet nemesis because it’s the dominant communication channel in the country, and has been hostile to the military,” Human Rights Watch Asia Deputy Director Phil Robertson told Reuters, referring to the country’s army.
“Since the Burmese people are rapidly moving online to organize a massive civil disobedience campaign, shuttering access becomes a top priority.” – article
Er…. Does this mean that there are other people who think fakebook is the pits? In a country with a population of +/- 54 million, relying on information by way of a single electronic instant messaging service like Facebook is probably less than wise. But as the author of the piece indicates, Facebook is used as internet service by the general population.
Facebook has been blocked by China for a while now, and has been under pressure in Vietnam and is currently facing shutdown pressure in India, Turkey and other nations, and seems to be losing its welcome elsewhere.
From the article: Facebook plays an outsized role in Myanmar, where for many residents it is synonymous with the internet. United Nations investigators say that Facebook allowed the platform to be used by radical Buddhist nationalists and members of the military to fan a campaign of violence towards the Muslim Rohingya minority, 700,000 of whom fled an army crackdown in 2017. – article.
There is an enormous and very deep level of irony here. Read the full article at the link
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Foreign Policy
So, just to be clear, blocking Facebook access to political opposition overseas is bad, but blocking Facebook access to political opposition in America is good. Much like holding a Presidential Election by mail in ballots is secure and not subject to tampering, but Amazon workers voting by mail to unionize is subject to tampering. Does Hack Stone have that correct?
Hack Stone is indeed correct.
You are correct Hack Stone! And with your statement/Pledge of loyalty we can now offer you a Senior Vice Chairpersons Position in the newly formed Ministry of Truth. You will no longer have to slave away attempting to sell outdated software to the government using a coin operated cell phone.
It has good that you have seen that resistance is futile. You have been assimilated. Welcome to the hive.
One thing is for sure.
Amazon will not be unionizing in New York’s 14th District.
You know it’s odd when Macron of France is saying Fakebook’s shutdown of Trump is bad and anti-democratic.