Monitoring Myanmar's
Digital Crackdown
Real-time tracking of internet shutdowns, website censorship, and telecom infrastructure in Myanmar — for journalists, researchers, and international organizations.
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Myanmar's Digital Repression Deepens in 2026: New Surveillance Laws and Continued Internet Restrictions
Five years after the coup, Myanmar's junta has codified digital repression. New cybersecurity laws mandate ISP backdoors, 2,000+ URLs are blocked, and targeted shutdowns are used as collective punishment.
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Independent measurement infrastructure for Myanmar's digital environment
Since the February 2021 military coup, Internet in Myanmar has operated as an independent technical monitor tracking internet shutdowns, censorship events, and network infrastructure changes in real time. Our measurement infrastructure combines three independent data streams — updated continuously from the coup's first day to the present — to provide the most complete public picture of internet freedom in Myanmar available outside government sources. The data is used by journalists, human rights researchers, legal advocates, and international organizations documenting digital repression in Myanmar.
OONI Censorship Detection
We analyze OONI Web Connectivity measurements from probes inside Myanmar to detect URL-level censorship, DNS tampering, TCP/IP blocking, and HTTP interference across all major ISPs — MPT, Mytel, Ooredoo, and Atom Myanmar. Over five years of continuous measurements document which sites are blocked, on which networks, and when blocking began or intensified. The anomaly rate — the share of measurements returning a disrupted result — is our primary indicator of censorship severity across Myanmar's internet. Social media, independent news outlets, civil society, and VPN tools are the most consistently blocked categories since the coup.
Cloudflare Radar Traffic Analysis
We overlay Cloudflare Radar Myanmar traffic volume against OONI anomaly rates to distinguish targeted content blocking from wholesale internet blackouts. When OONI anomaly spikes coincide with a sharp drop in Cloudflare Radar traffic, this is the strongest available technical signal of a deliberate network-level shutdown — the pattern seen during Myanmar's nightly internet curfews, major military offensive blackouts in Rakhine and Shan States, and the total shutdown following the February 2021 coup. This dual-signal approach is the same methodology used by NetBlocks and IODA to corroborate shutdown events globally.
BGP Routing Surveillance
We monitor Border Gateway Protocol routing activity across all Myanmar autonomous systems every five minutes, detecting network outages 2–15 minutes before any news report or public alert. BGP prefix withdrawals — the routing-layer signal of a network being taken offline — are the fastest available technical evidence of a deliberate shutdown order. Our BGP monitor tracks mobile network operators, ISPs, international gateways, and internet exchange points, classified by observed peering behaviour rather than government licensing data. Historical outage records, downloadable in JSON and CSV, are available for independent verification and research.
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Our Observatory pulls OONI measurement data twice daily. See what's blocked, when shutdowns start, and which networks are affected.
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