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Myanmar: New internet blackout “heinous and reckless”
Responding to credible reports of a widespread mobile internet blackout underway in Myanmar, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns, Ming Yu Hah, said:
“To shut down the internet amid a volatile coup, a humanitarian crisis and a health pandemic is a heinous and reckless decision.
“Since the 1 February coup, people in Myanmar have been forced into a situation of abject uncertainty. An expanded internet shutdown will put them at greater risk of more egregious human rights violations at the hands of the military.
“The military must re-establish all telecommunications immediately and stop putting people’s rights in danger. All mobile operators and telecommunications providers in Myanmar must seek urgent clarification from the Myanmar authorities.”
On 6 February, the Myanmar military reportedly ordered telecommunications companies in the country to fully shut down internet and 4G services. According to information received by Amnesty International, the effective blackout will be in operation until Monday 8 February.
An earlier order, on 5 February, instructed telecommunications companies to block access to Twitter and Instagram.
On 4 February, the military had already announced that they were ordering telecoms operators to block access to Facebook until 7 February.
As the 1 February military coup was underway, internet and phone outages were reported in several parts of the country, including in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, the largest city, Yangon, as well as Shan and Kachin States and the Mandalay and Sagaing regions. Access was later reestablished.
There have also been mobile internet restrictions in conflict-affected areas of Rakhine and Chin States in the country for more than a year. 4G internet access in those areas was reportedly restored late in the evening on 2 February 2021.
Such restrictions pose a real danger to at-risk civilian populations, especially when access to information is so vital during the COVID-19 pandemic – and even more so when the situation on the ground is so tense amid the coup, and in conflict-affected areas.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/02/myanmar-new-internet-blackout/
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Responding to credible reports of a widespread mobile internet blackout underway in Myanmar, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns, Ming Yu Hah, said:
“To shut down the internet amid a volatile coup, a humanitarian crisis and a health pandemic is a heinous and reckless decision.
“Since the 1 February coup, people in Myanmar have been forced into a situation of abject uncertainty. An expanded internet shutdown will put them at greater risk of more egregious human rights violations at the hands of the military.
“The military must re-establish all telecommunications immediately and stop putting people’s rights in danger. All mobile operators and telecommunications providers in Myanmar must seek urgent clarification from the Myanmar authorities.”
On 6 February, the Myanmar military reportedly ordered telecommunications companies in the country to fully shut down internet and 4G services. According to information received by Amnesty International, the effective blackout will be in operation until Monday 8 February.
An earlier order, on 5 February, instructed telecommunications companies to block access to Twitter and Instagram.
On 4 February, the military had already announced that they were ordering telecoms operators to block access to Facebook until 7 February.
As the 1 February military coup was underway, internet and phone outages were reported in several parts of the country, including in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, the largest city, Yangon, as well as Shan and Kachin States and the Mandalay and Sagaing regions. Access was later reestablished.
There have also been mobile internet restrictions in conflict-affected areas of Rakhine and Chin States in the country for more than a year. 4G internet access in those areas was reportedly restored late in the evening on 2 February 2021.
Such restrictions pose a real danger to at-risk civilian populations, especially when access to information is so vital during the COVID-19 pandemic – and even more so when the situation on the ground is so tense amid the coup, and in conflict-affected areas.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/02/myanmar-new-internet-blackout/
#myanmar #internet #blackout #AmnestyInternational #thinkabout #why #HelpMyanmar
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"Heinous and reckless" internet blackout underway in Myanmar
To shut down the internet amid a volatile coup, a humanitarian crisis and a health pandemic is a heinous and reckless decision.
The #WEF bragged:
#Spain Just Powered Itself Entirely With Renewable Energy
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#Blackout #Portugal
#Spain Just Powered Itself Entirely With Renewable Energy
@wikispooks1
#Blackout #Portugal
#Blair wasted no time in scrambling to leverage yesterday's chaotic situation in #Spain and #Portugal.
He attempts to reframe a negative disruption caused by accelerated #decarbonisation as 'transformative positive disruption'.
They're losing with #NetZero and they're panicking.
@org_scp
Let’s talk about…the Spain/Portugal blackout – OffGuardian
#Blackout
He attempts to reframe a negative disruption caused by accelerated #decarbonisation as 'transformative positive disruption'.
They're losing with #NetZero and they're panicking.
@org_scp
Let’s talk about…the Spain/Portugal blackout – OffGuardian
#Blackout
🇪🇺🇪🇸 Spain has classified the investigation of the mass power outage.
So we will likely never know, but why would they do that?
Example: Germany Green minister Habeck hid results of a nuclear assessment, which said Germany can keep them running, to turn off nuclear reactors
@MyLordBebo
#Spain #Portugal #Blackout
So we will likely never know, but why would they do that?
Example: Germany Green minister Habeck hid results of a nuclear assessment, which said Germany can keep them running, to turn off nuclear reactors
@MyLordBebo
#Spain #Portugal #Blackout
Spain Blackouts Prompt EU Push for More Censorship Under “Preparedness Strategy” Citing “Disinformation” Threats
In other words – instead of addressing actual problem(s), the focus is being shifted to how information around them should be best managed, to somehow score public opinion points.
Speaking for Spain’s El Mundo, Lahbib mentioned the EU Preparation Strategy, and the Union Strategy for Preparation – apparently, her “shorthand” for the formal, and oddly phrased, “#EUPreparednessUnionStrategy.”
It is a set of measures meant to “counter foreign information manipulation and disinformation more systematically” by fully using the EU’s Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (#FIMI) toolbox, the censorship law Digital Services Act (#DSA), and the censorship initiative – the upcoming European Democracy Shield.(#EUDS)
#Blackout #EU #Spain #Portugal
#NetZero
https://a.devs.today/https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-electric-grid-crisis-green-energy-censorship-disinformation
In other words – instead of addressing actual problem(s), the focus is being shifted to how information around them should be best managed, to somehow score public opinion points.
Speaking for Spain’s El Mundo, Lahbib mentioned the EU Preparation Strategy, and the Union Strategy for Preparation – apparently, her “shorthand” for the formal, and oddly phrased, “#EUPreparednessUnionStrategy.”
It is a set of measures meant to “counter foreign information manipulation and disinformation more systematically” by fully using the EU’s Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (#FIMI) toolbox, the censorship law Digital Services Act (#DSA), and the censorship initiative – the upcoming European Democracy Shield.(#EUDS)
#Blackout #EU #Spain #Portugal
#NetZero
https://a.devs.today/https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-electric-grid-crisis-green-energy-censorship-disinformation