The Internet gets a bad rep as a big time waster and a constant smut-fest. But if there's one thing I really like about it, is that it's usually bad news for repressive governments.
Over the last few weeks, the world was made aware of the widespread protests in Myanmar/Burma. Pictures and videos made it to newspapers and television broadcasts, taken with cellphones and other consumer electronics and smuggled through the
Internet.
It comes as no surprise that part of the military junta's iron-fisted response was to "lock down" the Internet. It's not as easy as it sounds.
Sites have shut down, but some have managed to press on.
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