Myanmar military coup bans Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp
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Are there armed squads with AK-47's breaking in datacenter doors and forcing network engineers to update firewalls at gunpoint?
Or do they have a bunch of the local equivalent of FBI agents making phone calls to various executives saying "Block Facebook or we'll send you to jail"?
And what about VPN's?
The military also operate two telcos.
People are using VPNs but you have to understand that a significant number of people are extremely tech illiterate.
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1357078197989474305?s=2...
Users report MPT(partial state-owned telco) already done this.
Edit: Telenor telco as well.
I've seen comments like this in the past: how does that situation come to be? Is access to everything cut off such that it's the only available internet? Comments about "Facebook being THE internet" always leave me wanting to know WHY this is the case.
Some countries in this geography have 2.5/3G in the last decade, so there's a whole generation of users who don't know what's outside the walled garden.
Mobile penetration is 90% in a few years.
Facebook worked with local telcos to bring about things like Facebook Zero, Facebook Basics.