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...network or the internet at large.Were we not students at Harvard, however, but rather students at one of the top universities in China, our experience with firewalls would be a substantially different one.China, along with a growing number of other countries (generally with authoritarian governments—places like Myanmar and Singapore), has a firewall of a different sort—a national barrier aimed at preventing those on the inside from accessing information about certain ideas viewed as “dangerous,” dissenting, or sensitive.The “OpenNet Intiative,” a project based...
...hard to feel good about a person described as an absconder, an insurgent and an opium-smuggling terrorist--unless the group doing the name calling is the military junta that runs Burma (Myanmar) and the person being defamed is Dr. Cynthia Maung. Since 1988, Maung has been building and running a thriving medical clinic on the treacherous Thailand-Burma border, providing badly needed health care for 70,000 people a year and facing down one of the most oppressive dictatorships in the world...
...victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
...consortium began work on a natural gas pipeline in Burma, called Myanmar by the military junta that took control in 1988 and disregarded the results of a subsequent democratic election...
Exporting products is also a way of exporting ideas; as such we should only go to war when trade has failed. Iraq has been expensive and bloody and is something that we can hardly afford to replicate in Iran, Myanmar or Cuba. Would it be too much to ask to open up to these countries and then see what this country...