May 03, 2019 · Playing Cat and Mouse With Venezuela’s Internet Censors In an effort to keep the military connected and protesters offline, Maduro embraces nimble internet censorship. By Elias Groll

Oct 16, 2019 · However, when the drastic crash in oil prices came, along with a collapse in Venezuelan oil production, those societal indices nosed downward, and statistical censorship arrived. One example: On Jun 27, 2018 · Venezuela ramps up censorship with Tor ban. The anonymous browsing network gets blocked in the government's latest threat to human rights. Twitter also communicated to users in Venezuela how to use Twitter using SMS, in anticipation of further Internet interruptions. William Castillo , the director of CONATEL , the country's media regulator, later claimed that Internet censorship was necessary to fight off online attacks. In Venezuela, a case that we examine below in depth, all three of these factors are in play. Internet usage there is among the fastest-growing in the world, even as the government pursues an ambitious program of censorship. Many methods used by the state are beneath the waterline, and have surfaced in other countries. Aug 07, 2014 · Censorship is nothing new in Venezuela, but it is taking novel, more covert, forms under Mr. Chávez’s lackluster replacement, Nicolás Maduro. Mr. Maduro hasn’t made much headway against the In 2014, Reporters Without Borders originally stated that Venezuela did not fit the categories of either "surveillance", "censorship", "imprisonment" or "disinformation" [42] but later warned of "rising censorship in Venezuela's Internet service, including several websites and social networks facing shutdowns".

Online censorship is an established fact, which is proved by the approximately 500 web pages and sites that most Venezuelan Internet users currently cannot access,” said Carlos Correa, the head of Espacio Público, an NGO that defends the right to information, on 17 March on Radio Éxitos in response to the question “can the government really censor Internet content?”

Feb 03, 2019 · CARACAS, Venezuela – Opposition leader Juan Guaido’s calls for Venezuelans to abandon Nicolas Maduro’s government are booming across the world outside, but the self-declared interim

Jun 25, 2018 · “This is the latest escalation in Venezuela’s internet censorship efforts, as it blocks higher-profile sites with more sophisticated methods,” said Andrés Azpúrua of Venezuela Inteligente

Reported cases of internet censorship. Pervasive levels of internet censorship have been carried out in Venezuela since 2014, largely monitored and documented by local civil society groups IPYS Venezuela and Venezuela Inteligente. Their study (between 2015 and 2016) showed that 43 websites were systematically blocked by one or more Venezuelan ISPs. The types of websites that appeared to be blocked the most include: Sites related to the parallel market of the dollar (44%), media (19%), blogs Feb 03, 2019 · CANTV accounts for about 70 percent of Venezuela's fixed internet connections and 50 percent of mobile, and Netblocks, a non-government group based in Europe that monitors internet censorship, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) South coordinator, Natalie Southwick, has criticized the recent situation in Venezuela: "We are alarmed by the increasingly brazen censorship in Venezuela, including the repeated and selective restriction of internet access, a popular tool of authoritarian regimes. Venezuelan authorities should ensure that all internet platforms and news outlets—digital, radio, and television—are available to citizens seeking to access and share information". Some of these efforts include banning independent media outlets, limiting access to networks broadcasting opposition leaders’ speeches, and collecting citizens’ information from the internet to use it against them. In Venezuela, the internet is a lifeline for citizens. Yet, internet freedom is threatened as the Maduro regime takes action to censor websites and news sources that contradict the views of the government. Nov 19, 2018 · Because Venezuela is one of the countries with the highest internet censorship in the world, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has developed an application to fight the web censorship in the Mar 28, 2019 · The new outages mark the return of ephemeral, or intermittent internet censorship imposed by the state appearing to target critical speech. Data are consistent with previous targeted disruptions during public appearances by the leader, and during sessions of Venezuela’s National Assembly.