8/21/22, 10:32 PM Are You Ready? - EngageMedia Read the Pandemic of Control, a new series on digital authoritarianism.   Are You Ready?  EngageMedia  13 March 2019  12:00 am  3 Comments After publishing an “incriminating” poem involving a former president, Maung Saung Kha was arrested for online defamation and criminal insult on 5 November in 2017. The poem took the attention of a staff member of then-president Then Sein, who immediately ordered his arrest. Myanmar has a stringent history of denying its citizenry their freedom of expression through its policies. In fact, Saung Kha’s arrest was made possible by Article 66(D) of the 2013 Telecommunications Law. Eventually, due to numerous protests, along with the old promise of freedom by the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the Telecommunications Law was revised in 2016. However, these revisions still fall short of the freedom the Myanmar people were hoping for. https://engagemedia.org/2019/are-you-ready-blog/ 1/5