crisis as a case since it has a close relation to Facebook and the headings Hla could see in her Facebook feed. I will, however, not go into details of the Rohingyas, since it is not relevant to this argument. It is still essential to recognize that the Rohingya case has earned substantial international interest and is part of the reason Myanmar have had problems getting improved connections and relations to western countries. (Rønneberg, 2015) Part of the conflict is due to that Buddhist militant groups claim that the Rohingya people are not truly Burmese, but rather from Bangladesh. These groups do not use the word “Rohingya” but instead calls them “Bengali” to express that the Rohingya people are foreigners from Bangladesh and conducted land grabbing in Rakhine state. Rohingya people have no citizenship and are considered one of the most discriminated groups in the world. In March 2018 a senior UN human rights official declared the Rohingya crisis as an “ethnical cleansing”4. As a result of this isolation, the country has received even more sanctions, like a higher cost for student visas. In the US, the student visas for a Burmese student staying in the USA the price tag quadrupled in April 2018 (Goldberg, 2018), this means that it is harder for the population to travel abroad and receive higher and better education. The political situation has changed as well after the election in 2015, and NLD, with Daw Suu Kyi in front, is the political party that is voted to run the country. Daw Suu Kyi is named first state consular and functions as a de facto leader, with Win Myit as her president since March 2018. However, the military still holds the real power. Before the election, during the development of the new laws, they made sure to reserve 25% of the seats in the parliament for military representatives. To be able to get anything involving change through 75% of the votes or more is required. As a result, nothing happens unless the military generals agree (Rønneberg, p. 207). Smartphones to The People During the military regime, one of the actions the government did to keep control were the limitation of internet and phone access. At the time it was only one company allowed to operate in the country, the local company MPT. As mention, the prices were so high that most people could not afford a sim-card or to visit internet cafes. It was not until 2013 that the government opened up and allowed two additional companies to access the Myanmar phone- 4 https://ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22761&LangID=E 44