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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20 September 2010

Venezuela: Government vs. Social Networks, the battle continues.

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Last week, the President of the Media Commission of the National Assembly, Manuel Villalba, declared that tomorrow, September 21, he’ll file a petition before the National Prosecutor against several websites (link: ES). The cause: during a spate of deceases of people belonging to the high spheres of the government, several people expressed their enjoyment for the deaths, in diverse social networks and forums. Regarding this matter, legislator Gustavo Capella declared that this investigation should also encompass twitter and facebook.

12 July 2010

Venezuela: Two people arrested for tweeting about banking rumors

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After menacing twitter users for their online activities a couple weeks ago, last thursday two persons were arrested, accused of spreading false rumors about the banking system. Those arrested were identified as Luis Acosta Oxford (41), and Carmen Cecilia Nares Castro (35).

28 June 2010

Venezuela: Twitterers, bloggers and forum members, in the eye of the justice.

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A week ago, venezuelan President ordered to initiate a thorough and systematic investigation in order to identify the sources of the rumors about the instability of private banking. Authorities stated that generation of rumors is a crime, and that users of digital forums, online social networks, twitter or even text messages might be held responsible for manipulation and 'terrorism'.

14 May 2010

Venezuela: Polemic raised due to the blockage of websites by governmental ISP

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The main venezuelan ISP, Cantv.net, owned by venezuelan government, appears to be implementing its first censorship measures, by the blockage of two websites without any procedure.

16 April 2010

President Chávez and his “Communicational Guerrilla”

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On last sunday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez launched the program named “Communicational Thunder”, and seventy-five young students between ages 13 and 17, were sworn in his "Communicational Guerrilla", wearing khaki jackets and red bandanas tied around their necks. They had been trained to "fight against imperialist messages", either on social networks online, on walls and pamphlets or "through direct intervention".

7 April 2010

Some notes on the case of Noticiero Digital and digital crimes

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On past march, Venezuelan President denounced the website noticierodigital.com for "having published fake information, announcing the decease of Minister Diosdado Cabello", and he ordered the Public Ministry to prosecute the case.