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Anonymous
Jan 25, 2012 10:03 AM

If Burma does enact a Press Law and outlaw censorship of the media, it will form a strong contrast with the CCP regime in China, which has refused to enact a Press Law for over 6 decades and has continuously been censoring and controlling its media since taking over power by military conquest in 1949.

Anonymous
Jan 28, 2012 07:47 PM

While the bill for press censorship has been drafted a bill for 'defamation' should also be considered. Burma has be under press censorship since 1962 but the environment that press in Burma operated could also be described as the one that lacks accountability. There was nothing that an aggrieved person could seek redress for 'defamation'. Would Daw Suu be all right if she were to be called in all those 'derogatory' terms under the so-called 'freedom of expression' in the press? I don't think so.