Myanmar: Mobile phones as weapons of politics

While we refer from writing about politics, this piece is about misuse of the mobile technology. The best way to fight the opposition is to kill their channels of communication. That seems exactly what the Myanmar’s military government is doing with their latest move. Apparently, they’ve cut off the mobile phones of prominent pro-democracy supporters, Buddhist monks and of some foreign media journalists.

The idea is to curb the spread of information about protests which started back on in August, and keep the “good ol’ folks” on their seats. Yeah, that could help… for a short period of time.

Anyway, it’s hard to comment activities in the land that far away, but I know one thing – in cases like this, information usually finds its way to the people… sooner or later.

[Via: textually.org]