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Bloggers Who Risked All In Burma
An anonymous reader sends us to the UK's TimesOnline for a story about dissident Burmese bloggers, who, with the Internet shut down in the country, are no longer posting live stories. Some of them are on the run and fearing for their lives. "Internet geeks share a common style, and Ko Latt and his four friends would not be out of place in cyber cafes across the world. They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they have in the past few weeks, or achieved so much in a noble and dangerous cause. Since last month Ko Latt, 28, his friends Arca, Eye, Sun and Superman, and scores of others like them have been the third pillar of Burma's Saffron Revolution."
You can't use an iPhone in Burma. So there. See? It DOES have something to do with the iPhone.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
No dark tshirt or jokey nickname? Come on, Gothmolly, who the hell are you tring to fool?
Ah, but Bush didn't give you enough courage to run against Cthillary, Mr. Gingrich?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Well, I hear their ad revenue is through the roof.
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