The Prime Minister said that in the internet age a reclusive country like Burma, also known as Myanmar, can no longer remain hidden away from the world.
“Direct people power is going to be a force not just for individual countries but for foreign policy as well,” Mr Brown told a conference organised by Google in Watford.
He predicted that “whether it is famine, cyclone or whatever, pressure from the people is going to force government interaction.”
- Thomas Bell, “Myanmar cyclone: The internet will shame Burma’s junta, says Gordon Brown”, The Telegraph, 19 May 2008.
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1 Grasshopper // May 20, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Well Gordi, PhD, I just checked and it seems Burma/Myanmar is still fairly reculsive. Is his thinking that because the internet is such a huge media, foreign policy is more easily determined by the masses?
Maybe Gordi, PhD has learnt a lesson himself about internet shame? The 10p tax rate cuts u-turn? Classic case of projection.
This is as void as his comments about Lebanon, Syria and Zimbabwe. It’s a pity the altogether more alive David Milliband has to stick up for this incompetent, manipulative buffoon.
A fat man with empty words is Gordi, PhD.
2 [him] moderator // May 24, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Gordon Brown, Cyberutopian.
http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/5/24/3708399.html
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