US EditionNicaragua Shifts From Censoring Speech To Controlling The Internet Itself
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Nicaragua Shifts From Censoring Speech To Controlling The Internet Itself
Nicaragua has taken a quiet but decisive step: it is no longer satisfied with silencing what people say. It now seeks control over how their words travel. A new telecom law gives the state regulator, TELCOR, the power to demand traffic and location data from internet, mobile, and audiovisual providers. With that, authorities can see […]
Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have extended the censorship imposed by their co-presidential regime to the Internet. This is how the last remaining redoubt for freedom of expression and press in Nicaragua for dissident voices is surrounded. With the entry into force of the new General Law on Convergence Telecommunications, the bicephala administration not only imposes a technical change in how the networks, antennas or internet are organized …
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