Internet Blackout in Myanmar Stalls Citizen Report 185
StonyandCher writes "The government in Myanmar has reportedly cut off Internet access in the troubled country.
The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide of photos and videos shared with the rest of the world but people outside of the troubled country continue to use new media sites and other technologies to protest military activity in the Southeast Asia country."
Site with TFA is loaded with flash (Score:4, Informative)
Control=Cut off information (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Umm... only question: Why so late? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't think your average autocratic police state is that tech-savvy - Burma is run by peope whose expertise lies more in the area of killing and torture.
It may simply have not occurred to them to do this
Re:Ah, well ... (Score:3, Informative)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149/ [ietf.org]
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549/ [ietf.org]
WTF? Haven't you heard of Burmah Oil? (Score:2, Informative)
It has large quantities of oil and gas...
WTF do you think there are problems in the place all of a sudden? Do you think it's coincidence there are problems and unrest in oil producing countries now that world oil production has fallen for the last few years?
http://www.worldoil.com/INFOCENTER/STATISTICS_DETAIL.asp?Statfile=_worldoilproduction [worldoil.com]
please... (Score:5, Informative)
Also, I don't get the anti-bush tag, he seems to be doing a lot more than most to help the situation...
Re:Fucking Myanmar... (Score:2, Informative)
The whole point of the protests is that the ruling junta never allowed her to take office after they won the election.
Burma has lots of oil (Score:5, Informative)
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Burma has tons of oil. Chevron and Total are the two Western companies profiting the most, but China, India and Russia all have significant (read multi-BILLION dollar) investments as well..
Re:Umm... only question: Why so late? (Score:3, Informative)
If you knew ANYTHING about the societies which were (they aren't now) run on a system of caste organisation, you would know that the monkhood is open to everyone.
In India, in all Indic-influenced countries, one of the things that a monk undergoes is the renunciation of his ties with the world, including his birth, his caste, and his society. He is a free spirit. There is a saying, "Never seek the source of a sannyasi or a river." This basically means that once a person is a renunciate, that's it, you don't bother what he was before his new life, the old self is dead. This is the position taken by everyone, from the ultra-orthodox to the most liberal, and is the way things have been done for millennia.
A part of renunciation includes conducting a full and proper funeral for the "old self", where all links to the past are cut. It is a difficult thing to do or undergo, but once it is done, that's it, it's over. You have no caste, no gender, no ties with the world, no regard for the taboos of your society, and no fear of the power structures within it.
As for the allegation that monks do not do their duty to society - isn't it the exact opposite that is happening here? Aren't the monks acting as a rallying point for the protests?
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