BBC News reader comments and other contributions
Reading the BBC’s excellent online coverage of the protests in Burma (Myanmar), I learned something new (to me, anyway): BBC News has two types of comment moderation. Each one is briefly explained on this page. (The Burma discussion is “fully moderated.”)
E-mails are arriving from inside Burma, describing the events there. BBC News has been publishing excerpts for three days.
At the end of each news story about Burma, this text appears in bold type:
Are you in Burma? How have you been affected by the current situation? What is the mood like in the country? Send us your comments and experiences.
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I really appreciate the way the BBC sidebars provide so much context and background information, such as an explanation of the role of the monks in Burmese society. In another story, a blogger in London — a native of Burma — explains how his blog has become a site for reports from inside the country:
“I have about 10 people inside, in different locations. They send me their material from internet cafes, via free hosting pages or sometimes by e-mail,” he told the BBC News website.
“All my people are among the Buddhists, they are walking along with the march and as soon as they get any images or news they pop into internet cafes and send it to me.”
People inside Burma are circumventing government controls on the Internet, the BBC reports:
Bloggers are teaching others to use foreign-hosted proxy sites — such as your-freedom.net and glite.sayni.net — to view blocked sites and tip-toe virtually unseen through cyberspace, swapping tricks and links on their pages.
I watch and hope for the best for the people of Burma.
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