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The new self-appointed military government of Myanmar has temporarily banned Facebook.
The local arm of multinational mobile carrier Telenor said it has received an order from the nation’s Ministry of Transport and Communications and has enacted it “while expressing grave concerns regarding breach of human rights.”
Newswire Reuters’ Myanmar reporter Hnin Zaw posted a notice from Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communications that imposed a ban until February 7th.
Using optical character recognition and online translation tools, The Register surmises that the order says the ban is needed to stop the spread of fake news.
Censorship-watching organisation NetBlocks says it has detected the effects of the ban.
Facebook has reportedly put Myanmar on a watchlist, in order to detect and delete content urging violence.
The Social Network™ is very widely used in Myanmar so the ban will stop the spread of all news and make it hard for citizens to communicate.
Locals may already be routing around the block: the trending domains report on Cloudflare’s internet radar also shows surging traffic to TikTok and the VK.com messaging service.
The local arm of multinational mobile carrier Telenor said it has received an order from the nation’s Ministry of Transport and Communications and has enacted it “while expressing grave concerns regarding breach of human rights.”
Newswire Reuters’ Myanmar reporter Hnin Zaw posted a notice from Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communications that imposed a ban until February 7th.
Using optical character recognition and online translation tools, The Register surmises that the order says the ban is needed to stop the spread of fake news.
Censorship-watching organisation NetBlocks says it has detected the effects of the ban.
Facebook has reportedly put Myanmar on a watchlist, in order to detect and delete content urging violence.
The Social Network™ is very widely used in Myanmar so the ban will stop the spread of all news and make it hard for citizens to communicate.
Locals may already be routing around the block: the trending domains report on Cloudflare’s internet radar also shows surging traffic to TikTok and the VK.com messaging service.