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Myanmar democracy  In an age of an abrupt new openness after
decades of repression, the line between freedom of speech and
human rights is blurred in Myanmar, injecting a dangerous
volatility into even commonplace incidents.  “People cannot
differentiate between freedom of speech and human rights. They
think they can say what they like,” prominent monk Ashin
Dhammapiya said at a conference on hate speech in Yangon last
Friday.  The government is also mulling over how to cope with a
flood of chatter, propaganda and hate speech on the Internet, in
the midst of ongoing tension and violence fuelled by Buddhist
supremacist monks campaigning against Muslims.  Deputy Minister
for Information Ye Htut, a former army officer, said at the
conference that half of Myanmar's approximately 800,000 Facebook
accounts had been set up under fake names.  The phenomenon is a
carry-over from decades in which anonymous rumors were the most
potent force in an environmen