At least four pages have been blocked since the Venezuelan election campaign began

By Francisco Zambrano/RUNRUNES

As the July 28 presidential election approaches, the number of restricted information pages on the Internet continues to increase. Venezuela.

This is caused by ONG and Sin filterswhich noted that the Venezuelan Observatory of Fake News and the Venezuelan Institute for Press and Society (Ipys) were recently affected.

According to VE Sin Filtro, The observatory was blocked on Friday 12th Provided by operators Cantv, Digitel, Movistar, Inter and NetUno.

According to the NGO, barriers to entry are DNS, HTTP and hybrid.

this A new wave of internet censorship It joins the fact-checking pages Cazadores de Fake News and EsPaja, which have been affected since the July 4 event began.

Es Paja claims to have recorded at least 82 “False content” About 28J’s presidential candidates and the voting process.

According to data collection, the Maduro regime blocks access to fifty pages dedicated to information.

In an interview conducted in 2022, following the alleged visualization by Argentine media Infobae, Maduro denied that this was his government’s practice.

“who Venezuela Everything that exists and does not exist circulates freely on the Internet. Just like any country in the world, there are rules of the game,” he said at the time.

Censorship on and off the Internet

The Inter-American Newspaper Association (IAPA) condemned Venezuela for “maintaining a system of persistent and systematic censorship that leads to self-censorship by independent media.”

According to SIP, At least two radio stations are taken off the air every month by order of the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel).

And according to data from the NGO Espacio Público, 383 violations of freedom of expression were recorded last year.

“Most of the documented violations were acts of censorship, intimidation, blocking of pages, and attacks on journalists, media outlets, activists, and civil society organizations,” they stressed.

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