2021/08/18 by Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Arturo Filastò, Maria Xynou +6 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Censorship #Disconnection #The Internet #Blocking (statistics) #Perspective (graphical) #Internet privacy #Computer science #Computer security #Telecommunications #Political science #World Wide Web #Law #Computer network #Artificial intelligence
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3473604.3474562
openalex publication_date 2021/08/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In the wake of a military coup in February 2021, Myanmar experienced unprecedented levels of Internet censorship. Beginning with haphazard blocking of social media and intermittent Internet connectivity outages, controls proceeded to stricter blocking of websites, the shutdown of cellular data in several networks, and nearly complete disconnection from the Internet every night. In this study, we use diverse datasets and measurement methods to offer a holistic view into the censorship events in Myanmar that occurred since the coup and show how Internet censorship evolved during this time.