[HN Gopher] New Myanmar's junta has cut off internet/mobile in 2...
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New Myanmar's junta has cut off internet/mobile in 22 townships
Author : giuliomagnifico
Score : 57 points
Date : 2021-09-26 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (yac.news)
(TXT) w3m dump (yac.news)
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| legerdemain wrote:
| Tangentially, what's up with what we call that country in
| English?
|
| "Myanmar" is the standard modern name and "Burma" is the name
| from the British colonial times.
|
| However, we have to realize that the R in "Myanmar" reflects
| British phonetics and should therefore be _silent_. No, NPR
| correspondent, it 's not "My Ann Mar," it's more like "Maa Maa."
|
| Second, the renaming to "Myanmar" was approved by the ruling
| junta. Using that spelling for the country's name is like calling
| Taiwan "Chinese Taipei." Is it ethical to give this name
| credibility?
|
| Finally, "Burma" and "Myanmar" are actually the same place name,
| written in two different orthographies. The latter prefers an
| archaizing pronunciation that the junta favors.
|
| So, why still "My Ann Mar, previously known as Burr Mah"?
| fragmede wrote:
| Colonialism, along with a great deal of inertial, mostly.
| There's a long _long_ list of things that English pronounces
| "wrong".
|
| Thank you for helping me update my pronunciation!
| livindub wrote:
| Like Uyghur. I absolutely hate anglophone reporting in their
| plight because of how they butcher that name into oblivion.
| josephcsible wrote:
| In the entire history of mankind, has there ever been a case
| where the good guys have tried to cut off civilians' ability to
| communicate?
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| pphysch wrote:
| > In the entire history of mankind, has there ever been a case
| where the good guys
|
| "Good guys"? What does this mean?
| kadoban wrote:
| In history, over the long term, it typically means "whoever
| won".
| LegitShady wrote:
| if you're not sure it means you should carefully consider
| your ethics.
| Rd6n6 wrote:
| Cutting off your enemy's communications has always been
| important. Most authoritarian governments decide eventually
| that their biggest enemy, outside of wartime, is their own
| people
| mcny wrote:
| I imagine by definition cutting access makes them not good
| guys?
|
| I can think of a few things I read on hn:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26023402 (India)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879546 (San Francisco)
| FpUser wrote:
| He probably meant guys who call themselves good. Like
| preaching their exceptionalism while killing and otherwise
| fucking up truckloads of "they hate our freedoms" people.
| josephcsible wrote:
| > I imagine by definition cutting access makes them not good
| guys?
|
| Fair question, so how about either that they were the good
| guys, or that they would have been other than this one
| action?
| LegitShady wrote:
| just like australia, basically.
| arcticbull wrote:
| Mm, nope not like that at all.
| LegitShady wrote:
| No, it has many similarities.
| HAL9001Ti wrote:
| From the article:
|
| > Junta soldiers are also accused of engaging in the brutal
| murder of a local pastor and several gang rapes of women
| and children. The junta is also systematically abducting
| the relatives of people it is seeking to arrest, including
| children as young as 20 weeks old. As of July, the junta
| has murdered at least 75 children ranging in age from 14
| months to 17 years.
| LegitShady wrote:
| currently the australian police are only beating already
| defeated non violent protesters. Shooting them in the
| back with 'non lethal' ammunition. Beating people on the
| ground with the butts of their guns, or kneeing them from
| a run. Any of those things could already lead to deaths.
| The state intervened to make sure no one could livestream
| events, or cover them from the air, to protect their
| shock troopers from consequences of their actions for the
| state. Give them some time and no punishment and who
| knows where it will go, except that it will escalate.
|
| It's not currently the same, but it has many
| similarities. Government out of control, state brutality
| against innocents. If none of the australian police are
| punished for their behaviour it will escalate because
| that is the nature of people.
|
| There is a reason people fetishized liberty, but it seems
| many forgot.
| Ms-J wrote:
| Poor AU. I sincerely hope their citizens rise up and crush
| their opposition.
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