Myanmar Kills Connectivity
Here is one way to do it (taxes if you’re an all powerful regime):
Without warning, Myanmar’s military junta has ordered a massive 166-fold rise in the annual satellite television levy in an apparent attempt to stop people watching dissident and international news broadcasts.
With no word in state media of any license fee increases, the first satellite dish owners knew of the hike was when they went to pay the 6,000 kyat levy, only to be told it was now 1 million kyat ($780), three times the average citizen’s yearly income.
-Shlok
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