Tag: Communications and Media Blackouts

Myanmar’s Young Rebels Find the Bright Sides to an Internet Blackout

In the night, the mountain air not quite chill enough to still the insects, young people gathered around a glow. The light attracting them was not a phone screen, that electric lure for people almost everywhere, but a bonfire. From around the blaze, music radiated. Fingers strummed a guitar. Voices layered lyrics about love, democracy […]

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