Myanmar Scam Cities Booming Despite Crackdown -- Using Musk's Starlink

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Last month, China sentenced to death 11 members of a scam syndicate that operated just over the border with Myanmar, with five more given suspended death penalties.
59% : I kept begging them on my knees to let me go.
49% : Erin West, a longtime US cybercrime prosecutor who resigned last year to campaign full-time for action, said "it is abhorrent that an American company is enabling this to happen". Americans are among the top targets of the Southeast Asian scam syndicates, the US Treasury Department said, losing an estimated US$10 billion last year, up 66 percent in 12 months.
37% : The borderlands where Myanmar, Thailand, China and Laos meet -- known as the Golden Triangle -- has long been a hotbed of opium and amphetamine production, drug trafficking, smuggling, illegal gambling and money laundering.
32% : " Governments, however, have been "insanely negligent" about the gravity of the problem, warned cybercrime expert Erin West.

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