[liberationtech] In Venezuela, claims of censorship on Twitter

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

Here's the result of my latest research on the topic of what's
happening in Venezuela, worth reading, to clear the fog!

http://www.thenation.com/article/178496/lasalida-venezuela-crossroads

"#LaSalida? Venezuela at a Crossroads

The protests this week have far more to do with returning economic and
political elites to power than with their downfall."

<< The only salida is [...] the exit personified in the more than
40,000 communal councils blanketing Venezuela, in the workers'
councils, popular organizations, Afro and indigenous movements,
women's and gender-diverse movements. It is these movements that have
struggled to make Venezuela, in the words of Greg Grandin, "the most
democratic country in the Western Hemisphere." And it is these
movements that--shoulders to the wheel of history--are the only
guarantors of progress.>>

Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,

Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes
<alps at acm.org>
+1 (817) 271-9619


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Rayzer Raygun <Rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
> Just want to point out this little tidbit. The rebellion: _"...was
> launched 10 days ago by students who have received backing from some of
> the country's fractured opposition groups"_
> <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/02/police-fire-tear-gas-at-anti-maduro-protest-201421524551175247.html>
> AKA the oligarchy that was continually trying to assassinate or
> otherwise depose Hugo Chavez, undo what social gains he managed to
> accomplish. I don't consider the "Anons" whining about pastebin to be
> anything more than Useful Idiot trolls for the oligarchy and US
> government policy. I don't consider what's occuring in regard to
> blocking Pastebin or Twitter censorship but an attempt to derail a
> destabilization disinformation operation in the interest of a foreign
> power. A power that IS NOT a liberating force in Venezuelan society now,
> or at any point in modern  history.
>
> Ray
>
>
> On 2/14/2014 4:00 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>>
>> The following tweet talks about using Orbot and Orweb to access the
>> site dolartoday.com <http://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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