How Burmese Dissidents Crack Censorship 154
s-orbital writes "According to a BBC News article, "Images of saffron-robed monks leading throngs of people along the streets of Rangoon have been seeping out of a country famed for its totalitarian regime and repressive control of information. The pictures, sometimes grainy and the video footage shaky, are captured at great personal risk on mobile phones — but each represents a powerful statement of political dissent."
The article goes on to tell the stories of how Burma's bloggers use proxy servers, free hosting services, and other technologies to overcome Burma's "pervasive" filtering of internet access and news."
no idea (Score:3, Interesting)
Those are mostly monks because the gov't is scared to bash a bunch of monks protesting. Despite being isolated from most of the world even the most hard handed regime is scared of pictures of monks getting beaten
Power Does Not Corrupt (Score:5, Interesting)
tpb does its part (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Who? (Score:5, Interesting)
That's the approach we successfully employed in Afghanistan. We taught the mujaheddin how to resist the Soviet invaders and taught them the principles of insurgency, which they haven't seem to have forgotten yet. And in Iraq, we sold peace-lovin' Saddam Hussein the weapons to defend himself against Persian aggression, which he peacefully used to help the Kurds avoid an uprising, and peacefully used to liberate Kuwait... and now we're rearming the Iraqi police to defend against those same weapons.
So if at any point you continue to think it is a good idea for us to keep providing arms to other people, just start flipping through your history books or your newspaper. Seriously, I think a U.S. invasion would be better than a weapons deal, simply because we wouldn't leave the weapons behind after the fighting is done.
Re:no idea (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, I think there have been regular people protesting where the monks were actually blocked by the police, but I can't recall where I read that. Many reports seem sketchy at best.
Re:Call it Burma (Score:5, Interesting)
The Junta will open the switch, i.e. turn it off (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Radical Religionist... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Radical Religionist... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Radical Religionist... (Score:3, Interesting)
I stopped at the same point. To see his entourage, his open mindedness to science and politics, and his spirit, I am convinced that this unenlightened one has done nothing more than read bumperstickers. Had he read even the chapter of any of the Dalai Lama's writing, he would be beyond posting as he did.
Re:What about inside Burma? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:What about inside Burma? (Score:3, Interesting)
I probably shouldn't go into any further detail about how I know this, though...
Radical slave master (Score:1, Interesting)
Well, it's a good that you didn't see the Dalai Lama's army of slaves then (when he was still lording it in Tibet), because if you did you would be seriously disillusioned.
Re:Who? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Oddly enough... (Score:2, Interesting)