But the tech giant’s decision is drawing criticism from local civil society and human rights groups who warn that the move appears ill-considered and inconsistent with international law. A blogpost in English does not constitute adequate information.”A catastrophic track record in MyanmarFor Facebook, Myanmar has represented extreme success – and catastrophic failure. Facebook dominates the country, with 20 million users in a country of 53 million, and for most people in Myanmar, Facebook simply is the internet. But Facebook’s action on the four ethnic armed organizations was “frenetic” and a result of “overreacting to their past failure”, Ko Maw Htun Aung, the founder of a Yangon-based social policy thinktank, told The Irrawaddy, a local media outlet. … If not international human rights and humanitarian law, we would encourage the company to release more information about the framework they’re relying on.”

Source: The Guardian February 07, 2019 10:52 UTC