Censorship ·
Burma's Internet Censorship Eased but Journalists Remain at Risk
Originally published by Committee to Protect Journalists on 2013-06-13.
In one of Thein Sein’s first media-related reforms, the government in September 2011 began to lift censorship of the Internet, including blocks on foreign and exile-run new sites. Because Burma has one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world, with less than 1 percent of the national…
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Added to digest: 8 April 2026