{"id":444,"date":"2007-09-28T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2007-09-29T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T22:46:52","slug":"burmese-military-junta-shows-how-censorship-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Burmese military junta shows how internet censorship is done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While no one was shot here in Sydney, peaceful protest suppression at APEC by paramilitary police forces wasn&#8217;t far from that in Burma.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/photogallery\/0,25214,5024288-20581-2,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/leak_toon_burma_sydney_news_com_au.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/cartoons\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill Leak for The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Morrow\">Julian<\/a>&#8211; wanna pull off a <em><strong>real <\/strong><\/em>raw comedy stunt? Off to Rangoon with youse mob. Dress up as the Dalai Lama again and run the security lines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Helen Coonan should look to Burma to see exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/09\/28\/2046773.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to effectively handle censoring the internet<\/a>. No lies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myanmar.gov.mm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">every<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bagan.net.mm\" rel=\"nofollow\">.mm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrtv3.net.mm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yangoncity.com.mm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">times out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnsstuff.com\/tools\/ping.ch?ip=http:\/\/www.myanmar.gov.mm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">network sleuthing<\/a>, looking at http:\/\/www.myanmar.gov.mm\/, reveals that the DNS system knows that site should be at IP 74.53.59.165&#8230; but when you ping that IP, it does not respond. This indicates that the junta have actually cut the damn cables- or, more likely, turned off the telephony\/data terminal equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Scary. A news and communications blackout is the first thing you need to do in this modern world before you commit a few crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>What <strong><em>can<\/em><\/strong> you do when the govt shuts off the &#8216;net? Hope you didn&#8217;t throw out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/e\/A\/AgencyHistory\/0.html\">old fax machine<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While no one was shot here in Sydney, peaceful protest suppression at APEC by paramilitary police forces wasn&#8217;t far from that in Burma. Bill Leak for The Australian Hey, Julian&#8211; wanna pull off a real raw comedy stunt? Off to Rangoon with youse mob. Dress up as the Dalai Lama again and run the security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}