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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In-Depth Analysis
Myanmar's Manufactured Election: How the Junta Controlled the Digital Space
Myanmar's military held a three-phase sham election from December 2025 to January 2026. Our OONI and Cloudflare Radar data show why no emergency blackout was needed: the junta had already achieved mass censorship.
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.
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 four independent data streams — updated continuously since the coup's first day — to produce 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.
OONI Censorship Detection
We analyse OONI Web Connectivity measurements from probes inside Myanmar to detect URL-level censorship, DNS tampering, TCP/IP resets, and HTTP interference across all major ISPs. Five years of continuous data document which sites are blocked, on which networks, and when. The weekly anomaly breakdown chart shows the composition of each measurement period — ok, failure, anomaly, confirmed blocking — revealing whether elevated rates reflect new targeted blocks or broader network degradation.
Cloudflare Radar Traffic
We overlay Cloudflare Radar Myanmar traffic volume against OONI anomaly rates to distinguish targeted content blocking from wholesale blackouts. An anomaly spike paired with a traffic drop is the strongest available technical signal of a deliberate population-level shutdown — the pattern seen during nightly curfews, Rakhine and Shan offensive blackouts, and the February 2021 coup. The 30-day Live Signal chart on the Observatory dashboard gives the fastest read on today's connectivity.
Access Now STOP Dataset
We integrate Access Now's global human-verified shutdown registry, filtered to Myanmar and updated weekly. Each record is confirmed by researchers through direct community contact, cross-referenced with technical measurements. Events are overlaid on the shutdown tracker chart as coloured bands by type — full network, mobile, platform, throttle — and plotted on a regional map with a timeline scrubber to trace which administrative regions were simultaneously affected at any given month since 2021.
BGP Routing Surveillance
We monitor BGP routing activity across all Myanmar autonomous systems every five minutes, detecting network outages 2–15 minutes before any public alert. BGP prefix withdrawals are the fastest available evidence of a deliberate shutdown order. Our monitor covers mobile operators, ISPs, international gateways, and internet exchange points. Historical outage records are downloadable in JSON for independent research.
Track Myanmar's internet in real time
Our Observatory pulls OONI measurement data twice daily. See what's blocked, when shutdowns start, and which networks are affected.
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