Marianne Diaz

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Venezuelan lawyer and fiction writer. Blogger for Amnesty International on Human Rights issues. Interested in gender, poverty and work issues, and freedom of speech and information. You can find my ramblings and writings at my personal blog, La vida no trae instrucciones, and my articles about human rights and development issues, at Ex Cátedra.

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25 April 2013

Will the Revolution Still be Tweeted? Venezuela's Netizens Face Uncertain Future

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Since the death of Hugo Chavez and narrow victory of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, two social media users have been arrested for posting information deemed “destabilizing” to the country. On election day, the Internet was briefly shut down throughout most of the country. And today, social network users are facing threats to their employment status, as authorities search profiles for signs of political affiliation that have, in several cases, resulted in users losing their jobs.

18 April 2013

Venezuela: Facebook User Detained for “Destabilizing” Photograph

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Two days after presidential elections in Venezuela, authorities detained Andrés Rondón Sayago, a citizen who allegedly spread photographs of burning ballots. Officials say that the photographs were taken during 2007 elections, not in the present day. Rondón Sayago has been accused of sharing the photographs with “destabilizing intentions.”

25 January 2013

Colombia: Copyright Law Rejected by Constitutional Court

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On Wednesday night, October 23, 2012, the Colombian Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional Articles 13 and 14 of the Law 1520, better known as Lleras Law 2.0. The proposed law provides for sanctions of online copyright infringement, in accordance with the Free Trade Agreement signed between Columbia and the United States.

22 December 2010

Venezuela: The bill to regulate internet has been approved

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On Monday, December 20th, the Venezuelan Parliament passed the bill that gives the Executive the power to regulate all content accessible in Internet within Venezuela. Through an administrative organ, CONATEL, all venezuelan-based ISPs will have the responsibility to block all content that collides with article 28 and 29.

16 December 2010

Venezuela: Internet law moves forward, albeit with changes

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In a first round of discussion, on December 14th, the Venezuelan National Assembly approved the reform to the Law on Social Responsibility in Radio, Television and Electronic Media and differed for today the Law for Telecommunications. However, the texts that were discussed yesterday were different to the ones that were published on the Assembly website, and several points were eliminated

12 December 2010

Venezuela: A law to regulate the Internet raises controversy

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Venezuelan government is promoting a law reform to regulate the access and usage of the Internet within the country, and also the implementation of a national Network Access Point.

1 October 2010

Venezuela: WordPress reported inaccessible for three days

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Since Sunday afternoon, September 26th, 2010, while Venezuelan elections for the National Assembly were still being held, several users started reporting that they were unable to access any blog hosted on the free blogging platform Wordpress.com from their internet connections within the country.