technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
the despicable military dictatorship in Burma has been pressuring the Telenor communications company to install surveillance systems to monitor dissidents. so far they have refused to activate it because of an EU embargo law, but now they're bailing on their Burmese operations altogether and selling their business to another company outside the EU that may not have any hesitance to activate the surveillance.