After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
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Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#2Makes me think of this: https://xkcd.com/538.
Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#3Yet it didn't require a travel ban to get similar capabilities implemented for the NSA, GCHQ et al.
Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#4Well, those idiots thought they will not touch foreigners... because they are "foreigners?"
Now reap what you sow.
The value of their passports are no more to Burmese military than lives of their own citizens.
Now they will have time to contemplate how deeply concerned they are in Burmese jails.
Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#5Well, those idiots thought they will not touch foreigners... because they are "foreigners?" Now reap what you sow. The value of their passports are no more to Burmese military than lives of their own citizens. Now they will have time to contemplate how deeply concerned they are in Burmese jails.
I don't follow what "they sow". It seems that they were ordered by the military to implement surveillance and now they are personally threatened. I cannot comment on their intelligence but maybe you could provide some information.
Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#6Yet it didn't require a travel ban to get similar capabilities implemented for the NSA, GCHQ et al.
The UK and the USA need to be more subtle to sneak past the limits of what is democratically acceptable. A military dictatorship, not so much.
Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#7Well, those idiots thought they will not touch foreigners... because they are "foreigners?" Now reap what you sow. The value of their passports are no more to Burmese military than lives of their own citizens. Now they will have time to contemplate how deeply concerned they are in Burmese jails.
I don't follow what "they sow". It seems that they were ordered by the military to implement surveillance and now they are personally threatened. I cannot comment on their intelligence but maybe you could provide some information.
If they are foreigners it was either willing collaboration or not being allowed to leave isn't exactly new to them. If it's the latter, sure, they should be treated as victims.
Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#8Well, those idiots thought they will not touch foreigners... because they are "foreigners?" Now reap what you sow. The value of their passports are no more to Burmese military than lives of their own citizens. Now they will have time to contemplate how deeply concerned they are in Burmese jails.
I don't follow what "they sow". It seems that they were ordered by the military to implement surveillance and now they are personally threatened. I cannot comment on their intelligence but maybe you could provide some information.
> I don't follow what "they sow".
> I cannot comment on their intelligence but maybe you could provide some information.
Western companies in Burma largely collaborated with the junta with great enthusiasm, going above and beyond what a person simply coerced will do.
https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/national/bangladesh-blast...
They hope to ride this out, and have chummy relationship with the government under junta.
And this is when their execs largely fare from countries proclaiming themselves most liberal out there.
Re: After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving
#9I wonder how international companies handle this. Sneaking them out of the country would obviously be in breach of local law but may be considered part of their duty to employees (similar to rescuing people stuck in a war zone due to a business trip).
Why those executives were in the country is another question.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't follow what "they sow". It seems that they were ordered by the military to implement surveillance and now they are personally threatened. I cannot comment on their intelligence but maybe you could provide some information.
If they are foreigners it was either willing collaboration or not being allowed to leave isn't exactly new to them. If it's the latter, sure, they should be treated as victims.
A lot of foreign companies piled into Myanmar during the years it was/seemed to be democratizing.