[liberationtech] In Venezuela, claims of censorship on Twitter

[Yosem Companys]

Here's the latest from a Twitter follower:  "From Venezuela: our
government has now blocked Pastebin. Yesterday was all the pictures in
Twitter."

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Any of you following or researching this?  Does anyone have any additional
> technical information about what is going on there?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yosem
>
>
>
> Forwarded conversation
> Subject: [RedLatAm] Para Usuario de Twitter en Venezuela
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> From: Jamila Brown <jamila at accessnow.org>
> Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM
>
> Alberto,
>
> Venezuelans have experienced partial censorship/blockage from Twitter.
> Twitter issued this statement for those experiencing issues.
>
> Jamila
>
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> From: Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
> Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM
>
> The more data, first hard reports and through testing that is possible -
> there more researchers can determine and independently assess what is taking
> place.
>
> I'd appreciate from those who might have additional details about
> censorship, throttling and/or bandwidth shaping that might be taking place
> in Venezuela.
>
> Robert
>
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> From: Jamila Brown <jamila at accessnow.org>
> Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:34 PM
> To: redlatam at lists.accessnow.org
>
>
> Here's Twitter told Bloomberg that the Venezuelan government is blocking
> protest images on the site. See article here:
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-14/twitter-says-venezuela-blocks-its-images-amid-protest-crackdown.html
>