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Myanmar: The State of Internet Censorship.

Myanmar today is among one of the most censored countries in the world. The country is ranked 17 out of 100 on internet freedom with a score of 9 out of 100 on the Global Freedom Index after the military coup. Apart from this finding between January 2022 to June, it found 112 out of 2,130 websites were detected 1,473 confirmed blocking counts through 6 local vantages under DNS level interference and HTTP level interference. The project is done via Open Observatory Network Interference (OONI) detection and reporting systems, involving the maintenance of test lists and measurements.

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Field Value
Document type Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Language of document
  • English
  • Burmese
Short title (alternative/varying form of title) Internet Censorship
Topics
  • Access to information
  • Human rights
  • Internet
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Myanmar
Copyright Yes
Access and use constraints

Please see original webpage for access and use constraints https://imap.sinarproject.org/reports/2023/

Version / Edition 2022, 2023
License Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Contact

More information available at: imap.sinarproject.org. Any enquiries and suggestions about this report can be directed to team@sinarproject.org.

Author (corporate) Independent Researchers (Anonymous), Kelly Koh & Siti Nurliza Samsudin
Publisher Sinar Project
Publication date 2023
Pagination 58
General note

The 2022 original and full report which covers 8 countries of internet censorship, is available here>>>https://imap.sinarproject.org/reports/2022 The 2023 original and full report which covers 8 countries of internet censorship, is available here>>>https://imap.sinarproject.org/reports/2023/

Legacy reference document Myanmar_Internet_Censorship_22.12.2023.pdf
Keywords Censorship,information accessibility,Websites blockage,Myanmar,content blocked
Date uploaded January 17, 2023, 03:54 (UTC)
Date modified June 20, 2024, 04:37 (UTC)