Twitter on Saturday condemned Myanmar’s move to block access to its platform as part of a broadening crackdown on social media, days after a coup that imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders.<\/p>\n
“It undermines the public conversation and the rights of people to make their voices heard,” a spokesperson for the platform said.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to advocate to end destructive government-led shutdowns.”<\/p>\n
Telenor, one of the country’s main telecoms providers, earlier confirmed that authorities had ordered a blockade to Twitter and Instagram “until further notice” on Friday.<\/p>\n
Myanmar’s de facto leader Suu Kyi and president Win Myint were detained in Monday dawn raids by the military.<\/p>\n
The lightning coup returned the country to military rule, halting Myanmar’s brief 10-year experiment in democracy.<\/p>\n
By Wednesday, the new regime moved to throttle Facebook — arguably Myanmar’s main mode of communication — as an online “Civil Disobedience Movement” calling for opposition to the coup gained steam.<\/p>\n
Internet monitor NetBlocks has also reported local disruptions of Facebook-owned platforms Whatsapp and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitter on Saturday condemned Myanmar’s move to block access to its platform as part of a broadening crackdown on social media, days after a coup that imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders. “It undermines the public conversation and the rights of people to make their voices heard,” a spokesperson for the platform said. “We will continue to advocate to end destructive government-led shutdowns.” Telenor, one of the country’s main telecoms providers, earlier confirmed that authorities had ordered a blockade to Twitter and Instagram “until further notice” on Friday. Myanmar’s de facto leader Suu Kyi and president Win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}