Internet in Burma - Censorship

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The government uses a wide range of methods to restrict Internet freedom, including legal and regulatory barriers, infrastructural and technical constraints, and coercive measures such as intimidation and lengthy prison sentences. Although the authorities lack the capacity to pervasively enforce all restrictions, the impact of sporadic implementation and the ensuing chilling effect is profound. While information circulating on the Internet is still closely monitored, reforms by the Burmese regime that begain in 2011 resulted in information being more freely circulated.

Internet censorship in Myanmar was classified as pervasive in the political area and as substantial in social, conflict/security, and Internet tools areas by the OpenNet Initiative in December 2010. Myanmar is listed as an Internet enemy by Reporters Without Borders in 2012. Myanmar's status is "Not Free" in Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2011 report.

Myanmar utilizes a network specifically for domestic use that is separate from the rest of the Internet to limit the flow of unwanted information into and out of the country.

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