In Southeast Asia, Burma is one of the countries, in which the need to speak out is repressed the most. The government controls all print, radio, and television outlets. The Internet is even included to the extent that physical access to network-ready computers is restricted in the country, in compliance with the 1996 Computer Science Development Law.

Sein Win of Mizzima.com, a news service site in Burma, said that the law mandates all network-ready computers, as well as fax machines, to be registered with the Ministry of Communications, Posts, and Telegraph (MPT) prior to importation, possession, or use.