Brossel says if the environment for media does not improve quickly Thailand's ranking will drop further.

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Since the shutdown ended, Brossel says he has yet to receive a single e-mail from his contacts within the country.

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Given that there are fewer than 50, 000 such addresses in Myanmar by Brossel's count, he worries that each one will be closely monitored.

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Brossel says that proxy servers, which allow Web users to access blocked sites by re-routing traffic through another country, are still impossible to use.

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