So far, the Tatmadaw, as the Myanmar military is known, has depended on cruder forms of control to restrict the flow of information.
The military regime has also floated legislation that could criminalize the mildest opinions expressed online.
Since the coup, the military has repeatedly shut off the internet and cut access to major social media sites, isolating a country that had only in the past few years linked to the outside world. The data center raids in Yangon and other cities in Myanmar were part of a coordinated strike in which the military seized power, locked up the country’s elected leaders and took most of its internet users offline. For good measure, the soldiers snipped wires without knowing what they were severing, according to an eyewitness and a person briefed on the events. At gunpoint, they ordered technicians at telecom operators to switch off the internet. The Myanmar soldiers descended before dawn on Feb.
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