Those interests however, did not entitle Berkman or his clients to ownership of Facebook shares, which is where the story takes another turn as Berkman then allegedly enlisted John Kern as legal counsel to help enable the fraud.

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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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