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This edition features updates on internet shutdowns, crackdown on VPN usage, SIM card registration, and other incidents of digital repression in Myanmar.

In this episode, Asia-Pacific analyst and Access Now’s Myanmar lead Wai Phyo Myint sheds light on the current situation in Myanmar and the ongoing efforts of digital rights actors, individuals, and organisations to restore democracy in the country.

This edition of the Myanmar Digital Coup Quarterly highlights incidents of internet shutdowns during periods of high conflict, restrictions on bank accounts, and Telenor's exit from Myanmar, among other areas of concern.

Since the February 2021 coup, the military council launched its digital oppression of internet users and online communities in Myanmar. Such acts of digital rights violations are documented in this post.

The Digital Security Localization Fellowship aims to convene a network of localizers to support the development of localized digital security resources in Southeast Asian languages.

To raise awareness on the human rights situation in Myanmar one year after the coup, EngageMedia has curated a playlist of films that turns the spotlight on the Myanmar people's long-standing struggle for democracy.

The director behind ‘Black Out’ shares how the Tech Tales film was created to combat widespread disinformation and fear mongering by the Myanmar junta in the aftermath of the 2021 coup.

'Black Out', a film from the Tech Tales collection, is among 40 films from or about Myanmar featured in the encore edition of the Burma Spring Benefit Film Festival running online from February 1 to 13.

A year since the military coup in Myanmar, the junta aims to reintroduce a draconian cybersecurity law that would further limit people's digital rights. In opposing such curtailments, there are lessons to be learned from the military’s past actions.