[liberationtech] In Venezuela, claims of censorship on Twitter

[Nathan of Guardian]

The following tweet talks about using Orbot and Orweb to access the site dolartoday.com which appears to be blocked.

"Que No te Bloqueen Tu Libertad de expresión Tor ANDROID (Orbot y Orweb)
#13FVnzlaEnlaCalleNicolásPaElCoñoTeVas http://t.co/pdW48v3YR0 "

And the image:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgcozJFCAAAQvJt.jpg:large




On February 14, 2014 5:42:41 PM EST, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
>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
>> ------------------------
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ----------
>> 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
>>
>> ----------
>> 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
>>
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