Big Bird Smothers Juvenilebirds

"Burma's military regime is suspected of cutting public internet access today to prevent news and images of its violent repression of pro-democracy protests leaking out." [1]

Tactics!

For Juvenilebirds, the young videographer (http://www.youtube.com/user/JUVENILEBIRDS), this may be where "broadcast yourself" ends.

As in days of old, perhaps a decade ago, the professionals and the spies may have satellite uplinking capability through their news outfits (provided those organizations maintained those assets): we will certainly see if that turns out so.

How can anyone or anything hide the agony of 50 million people?

Rosalind Russell, a Western journalist in Rangoon, told Sky News: "We have been told that the internet is down for maintenance. There is only one server in the country. "When that is down, no one has access to the internet or the ability to send out news reports or pictures." [1]

That's how.

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1. Booth, Jenny and agencies in Rangoon.  "Internet access 'cut off' in an attempt to silence Burma." Times Online, September 28, 2007.

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Correspondence and Permissions: James S. Oppenheim

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