This morning a BBC News report said that “Burma has imposed a huge rise in satellite television fees, in a move critics say is design to limit access to foreign media“. In the previous post, we’ve discussed about the dilemma between press freedom and stability. Some would choose stability over press freedom, but in this case the Burma government has not interest in stability national development at all. The only thing they care about is to hold on to power as long as they can.
Interestingly, this time the Burma government uses the free market tool to limit its people from accessing information. The government uses the relation between price and demand to limit the right to get information. After all they know some thing about economics, but unfortunately this economic knowledge has never been use for developing the country.
If the Burma government success in limiting access to information, soon we will have a population of a nation that is brain-washed. If it is going to return to democracy, the military government will win the election again and again, because the population does not know any thing about out side world. Soon, all the Burmese people will know only the good thing about the military government. Is it time for international community to step up pressure?
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January 3rd, 2008 at 5:55 am
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January 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Yeah, I might do so if I’m earning $10,000 a year.
BUT for the people of Burma who lives on a couple of dollars a day, that would be impossible. A high school teacher in Burma would have to work three years to be able to afford this satellite TV.