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Timothy McLaughlin

@tmclaughlin3
15 posts
2024-06-20
The Myanmar junta, Kokang clans and the Chinese government, a love (hate) triangle of scams and torture: “....caged lions, tigers and bears were used to threaten workers who stepped out of line, according to a person who led a team of workers there.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-06-20 View on X
Washington Post

An investigation details how Chinese gangs, Chinese officials, and Myanmar's Junta made Myanmar's Kokang region a key hub in the global online scam industry

Washington Post : X: @tmclaughlin3 , @shibanimahtani , @washingtonpost , @silvermanjacob , @zachabuza , and @shibanimahtani . LinkedIn: Shibani Mahtani X: Timothy McLaughlin / @tm...

2023-03-26
“Since 2020, the team has been instrumental in the cancellation of four cables whose backers had wanted to link the United States with Hong Kong, Devin DeBacker, a DOJ official and senior member of Team Telecom, told Reuters in an interview.” https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-03-26 View on X
Reuters

Sources: concerned about Chinese spying, the US helped SubCom win its $600M bid for an Asia-Europe subsea cable project through incentives and investor pressure

Subsea cables, which carry the world's data, are now central to the U.S.-China tech war.  Washington, fearful of Beijing's spies …

2022-04-20
Google nukes John Lee's YouTube channel citing U.S. sanctions. Interesting to see if Facebook will do the same. Lee has a page there for his campaign and so does Carrie Lam who is also an active Instagram user. Maybe @george_chen knows? https://www.scmp.com/...
2022-04-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Google and Meta restrict the accounts of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate, John Lee, citing US sanctions from 2020 on Lee for crushing protests

Google and Meta Platforms Inc. moved on Wednesday to curtail the social media presence of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate …

2021-11-02
“In recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, Yahoo's suite of services will no longer be accessible from mainland China as of November 1.” More decoupling from Beijing. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-11-02 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Yahoo pulls its services in China in a largely symbolic gesture, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment”, following LinkedIn

Yahoo Inc. said it pulled its services in China, citing an increasingly challenging business and legal environment.

2021-04-18
We can search for historic points of reference but the situation is likely worse than the 90s. Everything is in ruins because of the military, all gains of the democratic opening stand to be lost and even worse. Myanmar is a resilient place but the coup is testing the limits. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-18 View on X
Rest of World

Internet blackouts following a military coup have shut down swathes of the online economy in Myanmar, where internet penetration had surged to around 43%

Amid internet blackouts, economic isolation, and massive strikes, a decade of development is unwinding. Tweets: @restofworld , @peterguest , @emilyfishbein11 , @p_annawitt , @bapti...

2021-04-17
We can search for historic points of reference but the situation is likely worse than the 90s. Everything is in ruins because of the military, all gains of the democratic opening stand to be lost and even worse. Myanmar is a resilient place but the coup is testing the limits. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-17 View on X
Rest of World

Internet blackouts following a military coup have shut down swathes of the online economy in Myanmar, where internet penetration had surged to around 43%

Amid internet blackouts, economic isolation, and massive strikes, a decade of development is unwinding.

2021-02-04
Widespread reports this morning of internet disruptions in Myanmar with Facebook not accessible on some networks. Many people downloading VPNs. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Myanmar's new military government has ordered local telecoms to block Facebook and its family of apps within the country until February 7

Myanmar's new military government has ordered local telecom firms to temporarily block Facebook in the Southeast Asian nation days after the military seized power …

2021-02-02
Myanmar, at the moment, appears to be being governed largely through junta decrees being rapidly released on Facebook.
2021-02-02 View on X
NetBlocks

Network data indicates the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar amid reports of a military uprising and the detention of political leaders

NetBlocks :

2021-01-13
Lots of new and alarming details in this report on the digital dragnet being used by the Hong Kong police against activists and pro-democracy figures. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-13 View on X
CNBC

Source: Chinese video platform Bilibili files for a secondary Hong Kong listing, which could raise over $2B

2020-12-21
Hong Kongers will know this fund as the group that Alex Lo said proved the US was paying Hong Kong protesters last year to demonstrate. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-21 View on X
New York Times

Documents: Michael Pack, CEO of USAGM, is seeking to cut funding for its nonprofit Open Technology Fund, limiting internet access in tightly controlled places

Pranshu Verma / New York Times : Tweets: @zacharykeck , @digiphile , @ewong , @deborahamos , @moisesnaim , @donmoyn , @tmclaughlin3 , and @frankpallone Tweets: Zachary Keck / @zac...

2020-08-23
Flashback: “Ankhi Das ... had uncommonly good access in Delhi's corridors of power. Her presence seemed to open any door, a Facebook executive told me. 'We used to joke that it was like she was Modi's granddaughter.' “https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-23 View on X
Washington Post

In India, like in Myanmar and the Philippines previously, Facebook has no issue aiding dishonest and hateful authoritarian leaders to increase its market share

Rana Ayyub / Washington Post :

2020-08-22
Flashback: “Ankhi Das ... had uncommonly good access in Delhi's corridors of power. Her presence seemed to open any door, a Facebook executive told me. 'We used to joke that it was like she was Modi's granddaughter.' “https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-22 View on X
Washington Post

In India, like in Myanmar and the Philippines previously, Facebook has no issue aiding dishonest and hateful authoritarian leaders to increase its market share

On Aug. 14, the Wall Street Journal published a damning story about Facebook's complicity in aiding and abetting Prime Minister …

2020-08-15
Excellent WSJ story digging into and confirming the long-rumored favoritism Facebook's Ankhi Das has towards members of the BJP and Hindu nationalists. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Facebook didn't apply hate speech rules to at least four flagged individuals and groups in India, showing a pattern of favoritism to Modi's party

Company executive in vital market opposed move to ban controversial politician; some employees allege favoritism to ruling party Tweets: @jeffhorwitz , @seemay , @rmac18 , @tmclaug...

2020-07-07
“TikTok said last September it had 150,000 users in Hong Kong. While that number has probably gone up since, it is still a small market and not yet a profitable one either, according to the company.” https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-07 View on X
Axios

TikTok will pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong following a new security law, saying it doesn't and wouldn't share data with China

TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid a restrictive new law that went into effect last week...

2020-04-22
Very little Facebook and Google won't do in terms of restricting content in order to please the Vietnamese government. Market is too promising for them: https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-04-22 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Vietnamese state-telcos took Facebook's local servers offline, slowing traffic, until the company agreed to increase censorship of “anti-state” posts

HANOI (Reuters) - Facebook's local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic …