Thailand Steps Up Internet Surveillance and Censorship – Arrests Blogger
Myanmar’s junta has stepped up surveillance of the Internet, arresting one blogger who wrote about the stifling of free expression in the military-ruled nation, media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said.
Myanmar authorities have stepped up their surveillance of the Internet since the beginning of the month, pressuring Internet cafe owners to register personal details of all users and to program screen captures every five minutes on each computer, the release said.
This data apparently is sent to the Ministry of Communications, it said.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Myanmar is not the same country as Thailand; they are two different countries, with different governments, and different geographical locations. To compare the two, it is like North vs South Korea