5/23/22, 2:51 AM Internet Filtering in Burma in 2005: A Country Study | OpenNet Initiative 5 See DansGuardian, at http://dansguardian.org. 6 Prime Minister Attends Ceremony to Introduce Fortinet Antivirus Firewall, The New Light of Myanmar, May 16, 2004, available at http://www.myanmar.gov.mm/NLM-2004/May04/enlm/May16_h1.html. 7 See Fortinet, Fortiguard Web Filtering, at http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortiguardwcf.html. 8 ONI referenced the article Prime Minister Attends Ceremony to Introduce Fortinet Antivirus Firewall, in the publication The New Light of Myanmar, in our initial phone conversation with Fortinet. 9 E-mail message from Michelle Spolver, Sept. 26, 2005. 10 Prime Minister Attends Ceremony to Introduce Fortinet Antivirus Firewall (showing picture of Benjamin Teh); Benjamin Teh, The Stealth-Based Threat to Computing, Voice & Data, Feb. 2005, available at http://www.fortinet.com/news/media/AU_VoiceData_Feb05.pdf (describing Mr. Teh as "Fortinet Sales Director for South Asia" and containing a picture of Mr. Teh). 11 Sun Microsystems, General FAQs, at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/trustedsolaris/faqs.xml (stating that "it is Sun's policy to not ship products to Burma"). 12 U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights: Burma (2004). 13 U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights: Burma (2004). 14 See generally The Law Amending the Myanmar Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1993, translation available at http://www.blc-burma.org/html/Myanmar%20Law/lr_e_ml93_13.html; The Television and Video Law, 1996, translation available at http://www.blc-burma.org/html/Myanmar%20Law/lr_e_ml96_08.html; The Computer Science Development Law, 1996, translation available at http://www.blcburma.org/html/Myanmar%20Law/lr_e_ml96_10.html. 15 Emergency Provisions Act, Mar. 9, 1950, unofficial translation available at http://www.blcburma.org/html/Suppressive%20Law/s5epa_e.html. 16 The Unlawful Associations Act, Dec. 11, 1908, available at http://www.blcburma.org/html/Suppressive%20Law/ulaa_e.html. 17 P.Gutter and B.K. Sen, Burma's State Protection Law: An Analysis of the Broadest Law in the World, Dec. 2001, available at http://www.blc-burma.org/pdf/op/bspl.pdf. 18 State Protection Law, Chapter 2, Article 3, 1975, translation available at http://www.blcburma.org/html/Suppressive%20Law/spl_e.html. 19 See U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights: Burma (2004) (noting abuse of the Emergency Provisions Act and the Unlawful Associations Act); Burma UN Service Office of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, Briefing Paper on the Human Rights Situation In Burma, Year 2003-2004, available at http://www.apsahrs.org/BurmaBriefingPaper.pdf (documenting use of the State Protection Act to extend prison sentences beyond statutory limits). 20 BBC News Online, Country Profile: Burma, Apr. 1, 2005, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asiapacific/country_profiles/1300003.stm#media. 21 See generally Robert Horn, The Puppet Master of Burma, Time, Dec. 9, 2002, at http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101021216/newin.html. 22 International Press Institute, 2003 World Press Freedom Review, at http://www.freemedia.at/wpfr/Asia/myanmar.htm 23 Venkat Iyer, Acts of Oppression: Censorship and the law in Burma, Mar. 1999, available at http://web.archive.org/web/20020617064004/http://www.article19.org/docimages/443.htm#leg. 24 BBC News Online, Country Profile: Burma. 25 BBC News Online, Country Profile: Burma. 26 See Rumours, the tool of terrorist destructionists, The New Light of Myanmar, June 15, 2005, at http://www.myanmar.com/nlm/article/June15.htm (urging citizens to ignore all but state-issued news); Only if objective conditions of Myanmar are viewed in right perspective, The New Light of Myanmar, June 5, 2005, at http://www.myanmar.com/nlm/article/June05.htm (criticizing "pessimistic" Western outlook on "Myanmar's democracy transition"). 27 Committee to Protect Journalists, Special Report: Burma Under Pressure, Feb. 2002, at http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2002/Burma_feb02/Burma_feb02.html. 28 Committee to Protect Journalists, Special Report: Burma Under Pressure. 29 Bertil Lintner, Myanmar payback time, Jane's Defense Weekly, June 15, 2005, available at http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/myanmar_payback/. 30 Lintner, Myanmar payback time. https://opennet.net/studies/burma 12/15