ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship “Regime” and “Junta”: The Key Words Leading to Media Licence Revocation unrest and threatening the country’s sovereignty The post-coup crackdown on free media came the monitoring. after the military repeatedly threatened to revoke media licences if they continued using the words “regime” or “junta.”73 While many private news media companies have been banned for disobeying the junta’s commands, those who attempt to remain operational have faced strict censorship that blocks the report of any news on the NUG and which use the terms “coup,”74 “military government” and even “military coup.” The digital and print publishing licences of five domestic outlets (Myanmar Now, Khit Thit media, Democratic Voice of Burma, Mizzima, and 7 Day) were cancelled and their offices raided.75 They have been banned from publishing, broadcasting, and transmitting information via online and offline means. Most now operate from exile. By the end of 2022, more than 20 media groups, including press agencies, publishing houses and printing works, have been banned since the start of the coup in February 2021.76 More recently, Ayeyarwaddy Times licence was revoked by the junta in June 2023. At the end of October 2023,77 the military junta closed down the independent media Development Media Group. Soe Win Aung, the night watchman, was arrested during the search of their offices by soldiers, while the rest of the staff went into hiding. Without giving any explanation, the military junta sealed the media company’s offices and confiscated several cameras and laptops. The media, an organisation covering conflict and human rights abuses in the western state of Rakhine, had already been the subject of defamation suits by the junta since the start of the coup in 2021.78 there was any oversight procedure to complement Doxxing and Harassment of ProDemocracy Activists, Women Activists, and HRDs In the puzzle of digital oppression in Myanmar, doxxing is one piece. Doxxing is the action of “publishing private information about someone on the internet without their permission”.80 The information can include revealing names, addresses and be used to harass people. Pro-democracy activists and HRDs are subjected to doxxing, as retribution for denouncing the junta’s suppression of critical voices and sharing about the plight of Myanmar’s people.81 The Telegram channel Han Nyein Oo, particularly well-known with 73,238 subscribers in August 2022, stands out. It regularly broadcasts the Facebook profiles and personal details of alleged resistance supporters. On several occasions, arrests have been reported, affecting individuals whose information and locations were shared in these messaging groups.82 For instance, Ye Htut, mentioned earlier in this text, was arrested a few days after the pro-military Telegram account leaked his address and urged the military to arrest him.83 Women activists and HRDs are particularly targeted by pro-junta accounts that use hateful, sexualised, and discriminatory language in an attempt to discredit them and silence their voices.84 This trend is reflected in the wave of hatred directed at women activists following the showing of the film “Don’t expect anything”. The 12-year-old girl, the protagonist of this film directed by Swiss filmmaker Didier Nusbaumer, is at the heart of the Online freedom has been steadily deteriorating in Myanmar even prior to the coup. The Social Media Monitoring Team established under the Ministry of Transport and Communications monitored online activities for the purpose of–as it claimed–preventing foreigners and foreign organisations from causing 194 through interference.79 It remains unclear whether controversy. According to the military junta,85 the film is perceived as blasphemy against the Buddhist religion. However, the Buddhist monk U Kovida said that he did not see any insult in Nusbaumer’s statements. It should be noted that the 12-year-old actress, the entire cast and the director were arrested Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia