21. Shawn W. Crispin, “A quantum leap in censorship,”
Asia Times Online, September 22, 2006,
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/
HI22Ae01.html.
22. BBC Monitoring International Reports, “Burma
Internet users use proxy servers to visit blocked
websites,” October 17, 2006 (includes text from Ko
Thet, “A hole in the Net,” The Irawaddy, October 1,
2006).
23. The Myanmar Times, “Burma enforces licensing of
Internet cafes,” March 20, 2006, (text of report in
English by Khin Hninn Phyu, reprinted by the BBC)
at http://www.burmanet.org/news/2006/03/31/
myanmar-times-via-bbc-burma-enforces-licensingof-internet-cafes/.
24. Democratic Voice of Burma, “Press freedom in
Burma,” May 7, 2006, http://english.dvb.no/news.
php?id=7010; and Shawn L. Nance, “How to fool
the cyber spooks,” The Irrawaddy Online, March 27,
2005, http://www.irrawaddy.org/aviewer.asp?a=
4504&z=104 (inset).
25. Indo-Asian News Service, “Google, Gmail banned in
Myanmar: Surfers,” June 30, 2006.
26. Reporters Without Borders, “Internet increasingly
resembles an Intranet as foreign services blocked,”
July 4, 2006, http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?
id_article=18202; The Irrawaddy, “Junta blocks
Google and Gmail,” June 30, 2006.
27. See, for example, Mizzima News, “Four dissidents
sentenced up to 19 years in prison for anti-government
poems,” June 21, 2006, http://www.mizzima.com/
MizzimaNews/AlertBurma/22-June-2006-02.html.
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