Pulling The Plug

The OpenNet initiative has published a really interesting report on the internet shutdown in Burma following the recent protests. It concludes that the people of Burma "demonstrated that the tools of information technology can have a strong impact on the global coverage of events as they are unfolding and sometimes on the events themselves. The events in Burma also provide a chilling example of the limitations of the internet, access to which was ultimately vulnerable to the unilateral choices of a repressive regime.."