Santa Monica Prof Ryan McMillen Named in Burma Web Cut Off

Santa Monica College instructor Ryan McMillen has been named as the linchpin, in a roundabout way, for the shutdown of web services in Burma, aka Myanmar, by the ruling dictatorship.

McMillen was sent the video of Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai being shot dead at point-blank range by a soldier chasing demonstrators on the streets of Rangoon. McMillen uploaded the video to the I-Reporter service on CNN.com, according to Bangkok based Joel Gershon for The Hollywood Reporter, as printed in Washington