Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further notice: telecoms sources

Re:Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further n... by marshmallow_12 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:52PM (#26665868)

but again, if it gets as bad as in Myanmar, a)laws wont help b) we will have bigger problems.

Is shutting down internet a small step towards a coup, as opposed to being the fruit of one? In the case of the US, i don't think it's likely short or medium term.

What about police abusing this power? That's a local government problem, not a national one, so it's different to what's going on in myanmar.

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Re:Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further n... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:04PM (#26666005)

> if it gets as bad as in Myanmar, a)laws wont help b) we will have bigger problems

It gets as bad as it has in Myanmar when one doesn't have those laws. If you ban cutting communications, it normalizes the expectation. Cutting communications now becomes personally and politically risky in a way it isn't if it's in the grey area.

For an example, see India's slow slide into authoritarianism in this respect. Cutting communications in Kashmir was legal, but iffy. That normalized, legally and culturally, the mechanism. Now, communications are routinely cut across the country.

All that said, Myanmar fell to a military coup. That's a different failure mechanism from elected leaders getting too comfortable on their thrones.

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Re:Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further n... by baybal2 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:00PM (#26667339)

We have a member called 2GKasmiri, would be appropriate to hear him here.

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Re:Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further n... by selimthegrim on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:15PM (#26667474)

They cut communications regularly across the country well before 2019

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