Rural crime officer John Palfrey said it was vital that they work together to catch those responsible.

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But according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, complying with government censoring efforts is a "wildly expensive thing" for Internet firms to do.

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But neither Myanmar nor any other country has ever attempted a sudden shutdown of the Internet, and the cutoff from the outside world was unsustainable, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

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