Restriction on Internet Freedom by the Junta payment system has been relied for cash transfers. The Kpay accounts with high cash flows were monitored and freezed by the junta in cooperation with banks. It was reported that various accounts were blocked, as an example, the Kpay account of the CDM support committee of Dawei University in Tanintharyi Region used for funding was locked. 21 Moreover, three residents from Tabayin township of Shwe Bo District in Sagaing Region were arrested and charged under Section 50(J) of the Counter-Terrorism Law for allegedly supporting PDF on September 3.22 Mytel’s monopoly The operator Mytel which is a consortium of Myanmar military and Vietnamese Ministry of Defense on January 12 of 2017 is one of the main economic pillars providing massive profits to the junta. Since the February coup, Myanmar people began to boycott the military-own businesses, including Mytel. Telenor planned to sell its shares and leave the country as the junta asked telecommunications companies in Myanmar to install interception spyware that could intercept the personal communications23 which is against the international human rights standards. While users of Ooredoo, Telenor, and MPT have to use a VPN in accessing Facebook, Wikipedia, 21 and other websites and software, Mytel monopolizes the local (2021, September 14). “ထားဝယ်တကသိုလ်က ေထာက်ပံ့ေရးအလှခံေနသည့် Kpay အေကာင့် ပိတ်ခံရ”. Available at http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/487589 22 Shwe Phone Myat San. (2021, September 3). “KBZ Pay နဲ Wave Pay ကိစေတွေကာင့် ဒီပဲယင်းနယ်မှာ လူ၃ဦး အဖမ်းခံထားရ”. Available at https://voiceofmyanmarnews.com/news/2021/09/03/kbz-pay%E1%80%94%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7-wave-pay- %E1%80%84%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B1%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BD%E1%80%BE%E1%80%B2%E1%80%80%E1 %80%AD%E1%80%85%E1%80%B9%E1%80%85%E1%80%80%E1%80%BC%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80 %84/ 23 Irrawaddy. (2021, September 15). “ြမန်မာိုင်ငံတွင် ဆက်ရှိေနေရး မြဖစ်ိုင်ဟု တယ်လီေနာ ေကညာ”. Available at https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/short-news/2021/09/15/246021.html 9