11/17/25, 1:49 PM
Myanmar: Freedom on the Net 2025 Country Report | Freedom House
C8 0-3 pts
Are websites, governmental and private entities, service providers, or
individual users subject to widespread hacking and other forms of
cyberattack?
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Footnotes
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Amreesh Phokeer, “Myanmar Earthquake: A Crisis Within a Crisis,” Internet
Society, April 1, 2025, https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/myanmar-earthquakea-crisis-with…; Oliver Spencer, “Civic Aftershock: How Restricting Civil Society
Obstructed Myanmar’s Earthquake Response,” International Center for Not-forProfit Law, September 2025, https://www.icnl.org/wp-content/uploads/MyanmarCivic-Aftershock-ICNL.p….
2
Myanmar Internet Project, “No End in Sight : Situation of Internet Shutdown and
Infrastructure Damages in Myanmar,” Progressive Voice Myanmar, July 16, 2024,
https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2024/07/16/no-end-in-sight-situatio….
3
“Myanmar Communication Blackout, 2021 to Present,” Athan Myanmar, updated
August 2025, https://athanmyanmar.org/myanmar-communication-blackout-2021to-present/; “Number of times the internet was cut off by Region and State (Feb
2021 to Current),” updated October 2025, Myanmar Internet Project,
https://www.myanmarinternet.info/internet-shutdown.
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Surachanee Sriyai, “Myanmar’s Internet Shutdowns: Silencing Resistance in the
Battle for Connectivity,” Fulcrum, January 24, 2025, https://fulcrum.sg/myanmarsinternet-shutdowns-silencing-resistance-in-….
5
Grant Peck, “Myanmar’s embattled military government cracks down on free
flow of news by blocking VPNs,” AP, June 14, 2024,
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-censorship-virtual-private-network-f…;
“Myanmar junta restricts more mobile apps, residents say,” Radio Free Asia, July
23, 2024,
https://web.archive.org/web/20250329190006/https://www.rfa.org/english/….
https://freedomhouse.org/country/myanmar/freedom-net/2025
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