When Google’s making an important announcement, posts will sometimes appear on more than one corporate blog. Posts relating to Myanmar have been put on at least three, and the Google homepage has been altered, as well.
Citizen Journalists Report On Myanmar
While the Myanmar’s regime attempts to suppress the protests taking place, citizen journalists are playing a key role in delivery of the news to the rest of the world.
Blogs Evade Myanmar Media Ban
When the Soviet Union was under Communist rule, dissidents in Soviet countries exchanged information and commented on current events using photocopied newsletter-style publications called “samizdat” that were handed around from person to person.
Now, the Internet allows dissidents and protesters of all kinds to get information out of totalitarian countries much more quickly (although there are still restrictions that authoritarian regimes — such as those in North Korea and China — can use to make Internet access difficult or even impossible).
Myanmar Junta Bans Google
Internet users in the country formally known as Burma have been unable to reach Google or Gmail for over a week, as a ban that also effects Yahoo and Hotmail has been extended to another major web property.