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Burma bars Google, Hotmail and Yahoo
Perhaps the firms could cosy up to the dictators
Monday, 3 July 2006, 20:33
THE GOVERNMENT of Burma, or Myanmar if you and the old farts running the
company country prefer, has stopped Google and Gmail being used in the country, according to
Mizzima News.
The block's been in effect for about 10 days and Yahoo email and Microsoft Hotmail are also considered too subversive, the site reports.
The dissemination of free news has always been a problem for totalitarian governments.
More here. µ
* INQBLOT A reader points to the Monty Python "penguin" sketch, here.
L'INQ
CIA World Factbook on Burma
Despots and juntas - rhymes with something
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