Protests Highlight Power of YouTube
The world has a better glimpse into the bloody skirmishes between pro-democracy protesters and the military government in Myanmar, thanks to video sharing sites like YouTube.
Despite a reported government block on Internet access, people are getting pictures and video taken with mobile phones past the digital blockade. Video like this one taken a few days ago during the monks’ protest:
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[...] YouTube has a number of clips like this one which simply show the enormous scope of the protests [Via]. A very good source is the videostream from news6776 which collates a great deal of footage [...]
Blogging Burma : Tama Leaver dot Net
— 6:52 PM on September 29, 2007
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[...] the video-sharing site gave us glimpses of the wildfires burning in southern California and of pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar. Now a video shot by a student shows us what it was like during China’s [...]
YouTube at the EpiCenter of Another Crisis…
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