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Myanmar Orders Wireless Internet Shutdown Until Further Notice (reuters.com) 53

Posted by msmash from the grave-concerns dept.
Myanmar's military rulers have ordered internet service providers to shut down wireless broadband services until further notice, Reuters reported Thursday, citing sources. From the report: The instruction to halt wireless broadband services was relayed to employees of one provider in an email seen by Reuters, which did not state a reason for the order. It also said the current mobile internet shutdown would continue and by law it had to comply with the directive.
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  • This is my shocked face (Score:5, Interesting)

    by LatencyKills ( 1213908 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:47AM (#61224210)
    Military slaughter of civilians looks bad on international news? Stop the feed of information. Fascists gotta fasc.Though I suspect information will continue to trickle out - sneakernets and whatnot.
    • Myanmar is a basket case. The west hated the previous government and now we hate the military takeover. In the end, Myanmar is just a vasal state of China, and that's what they really don't like. (civilians and internet are just talking points)

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                Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
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      • Re: (Score:3)

        by Bert64 ( 520050 )

        The west always hated the military, the previous government never had any control over the military.

    • BLM showed the truth can't be hidden. Not in this day and time.

      • There are no parallels with between what's going on in Myanmar vs BLM being allowed to protest in the US.

        If BLM used a similar playbook in current Myanmar, they would be mowed down by machine guns by now.

        • So what you're saying is Myanmar protesters have been using more extreme methods, since they have in fact been mown down by machines guns, and as of yesterday, airstrikes?

          But that doesn't make sense from how you phrased it. Perhaps you're just confused, but about what, it's hard to tell. Maybe you can expand on what you were trying to say.

      • Re:This is my BLM face (Score:4, Insightful)

        by c-A-d ( 77980 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:15AM (#61224514)

        BLM showed that black shirt and brown shirt tactics can be used out in the open with impunity if the right people are in power.

  • Elon should aid-drop starlink receivers... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Tora ( 65882 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:48AM (#61224214)

    Maybe a fund could be started to get Starlink receivers to oppressed nations so they can still communicate to the world...

    • Assuming there's no geo-fencing in the satellites themselves. Never mind the signal has to come down somewhere.

    • While it would be nice, government officials would simply have to fly over neighborhoods looking for starlink dishes. Or just simply the act of getting the dishes into the country would be an issue.

    • Too easy to find with a radio direction finder. The internet will have to hide in the ambient noise

  • Finally. .. (Score:5, Funny)

    by PPH ( 736903 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:54AM (#61224238)
    ... someone is taking a stand against the 5G rollout.

  • Starlink (Score:5, Insightful)

    by backslashdot ( 95548 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:58AM (#61224248)

    Why in God's name aren't we funding Kepler and/or Starlink? I understand people hate Elon Musk because he's an African American, but at some point we have to say the thing he's building could solve a LOT of the US and world's problems. Biden is giving $100 billion to AT&T, Verizon and telco providers who previously took handouts and all we got was a magic show wherein they disappeared the money in a puff of smoke and nothing else to show for it. Why can't we just give Kepler and Starlink a billion dollars so they can complete their network faster? The rest of the money can be used as broadband vouchers for poor people.That way they are both super incentivized to actual provide the service or leave money on the table.

  • an app that takes SMS messages and converts them to packets?

    Seems like you could use "unlimited" Text like a slow modem...

  • Haha, no way this story is true.

    I remember the good old days of Slashdot when *every* posted story was an April Fools joke. In the early days, most were pretty clever. Then they got lame. Now they're gone. Sniff.

  • Satellite is unstoppable (Score:4, Interesting)

    by backslashdot ( 95548 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:10AM (#61224290)

    Take Iran, satellite dishes are banned. In the 1990s they would execute/disappear people for having satellite dishes. Today there are a crazy amount (technically illegally) of them everywhere all over Iran. Why? The elites wanted it. TV shows are too compelling for the rich. So now a lot of people blatantly have them .. they can't crackdown on them .. it would piss off the rich and corrupt people holding power.

    • You do realize it's possible for the police to crack down hard on the poor that don't have the means to make "donations", and leave the rich alone, right?

      If you think the rich doing shit enables the poor to do the same shit with impunity, you're naive beyond belief.

      • I know people who went there recently and they said easily a clear majority of residents have a satellite dish .. including many poor people. Yes, the police can crackdown on the poor -- and every few years they do --- its more for show --- look at the article linked below. Also, YOU are naive if you think some of the top 20% .. rich/privileged kids are going to not want to report things on behalf of the poor if they had Starlink. Look at a lot of the people helping BLM for example, many of them are wealth

    • I'll add that Starlink uses a phased array antenna. It's flat. You could potentially hide it almost anywhere on your roof.

  • This is why the President, governors, and police should not have Internet or phone network kill switches. The upside is far less important than the downside.

    • While that's true, you can't prevent it in either communist or fascist regimes. Either you install a kill switch or be jailed or killed. Your choice.

  • Apparently April Fools' Day is "everything shuts down day" on Slashdot, and these aren't even jokes!

    Verizon Will Shut Down Its 3G Network in 2022
    Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana on iOS and Android
    Myanmar Orders Wireless Internet Shutdown Until Further Notice

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    • While you might be right in theory, at least as practiced in the US, it's just an excuse to fetishize guns. One recent case where the pro-gun, anti-tyrannical-government crowd had their chance to really justify their position was during the Portland protests in 2020 [washingtonpost.com]. The pro-gun crowd should have been against the police; yet they either did nothing or supported the police kidnapping citizens off the street. Instead, it fell to a bunch of soccer moms to defend against a tyrannical government.
  • If the same number of people that went in on the game stop stocks flew over to Myanmar to help take the country back for democracy, in a week it would be a free country again and possible a devout ally in a very strategic position right up snug against China.

    • Problem is that doesn't sound like get-rich-quick. You've got to do more beyond spend your stimulus check on a few shares. A nonstarter for most of those dudes.

      The good news here is that it seems like the people of Myanmar might actually have some kind of leverage. Time will tell if the work stoppages and tribal militias are enough to turn things around. I really don't know that much about Myanmar history, but the fact that they brought the military to the bargaining table once before, not so long ago, look

      • Imagine the US social-media-mob trying to bring the military to the bargaining table in their own country... not a chance. Closest they'll get is another Trump who talks about "withdrawing troops" and still increases the military budget by double digits annually.

        And now you what them to do what... and where...?

  • Killing your own citizens? Killing CHILDREN? REALLY!?
    Isn't there some way we can stop this shit!?
    Almost makes me wish there was an actual place called Hell, so these motherfucking bastards could burn there for eternity.
  • law == force. Human race condemned to slavery. sad.

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