All,

It seems to me that the shutdown of the Internet between Myanmar/
Burma and the world is indicative of just how important it is to
their government to control what the world sees and the ability to
coordinate internally. But it also seems to me to point clearly to
the increasing violence by the government there. They have apparently
been very upset at the negative images and the clarity with which so
many images of what they are doing to control/arrest/kill/imprison
their citizens and have decided that the Internet was the source of
their problems. I wonder how long it will take for an independent
Internet connectivity to spring up with wireless and other radios and
to regain national access. If I were another government or non-
government organization with resources, I think I would have the
whole country on an independent Internet over combinations of
wireless within a day or two, with new addressing schemes so that
tracing paths back into the country was problematic and identities
would not be available to figure out how and where the links were
going or who was posting what information, thus eliminating the
government's control and ability to enforce restrictions on free
exchange.

I would love to hear other views on this.

FC
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