Internet Shutdown Adds To Venezuela's Woes 194
Slashgear reports that many state-run internet links in Venezuela have been shut down by that country's government, as censorship efforts there step up along with widespread turmoil, partly in the form of widespread anti-government protests. The article begins: "Don’t expect one whole heck of a lot of tweets coming out of Venezuela in the immediate future as President Nicolas Maduro’s government has shut down the internet and select TV channels. Having shut down Twitter access for the area this past week, Venezuela’s state-run ISP CANTV has been cut in areas such as San Cristobal. This area is a regional capital in the west of the country and CANTV controls the vast majority of internet connectivity in the area. The Electronic Frontier Foundation made note that Venezuelans working with several different ISPs lost all connectivity on Thursday of this past week. Users lost connectivity to the major content delivery network Edgecast and the IP address which provides access to Twitter’s image hosting service while another block stopped Venezuelan access to the text-based site Pastebin."
Re:The Internet cannot be shut down. (Score:5, Insightful)
That doesn't really work for you if you are in the damaged / isolated area.
Communists (Score:1, Insightful)
a very bad decision (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know why incumbent governments ever think this is a valid why to curb public sentiment. In every single situation where they try to do this to control the population it does the exact opposite and incites them to get off their lazy bottoms and rebel. They must not realize that cutting off internet access also cuts off pornography which means you have a lot of angry frustrated men with some serious aggression to work out roaming the streets. It is the worst move I can imagine.
Re:Follow the money (Score:3, Insightful)
I have no idea of what other party are you implying might benefit? Is Google expanding Fiber to South America?
Re:He's s shill probably (Score:4, Insightful)
Welcome to Communism. Totalitarian leader. Oppressive regime. Total economic collapse. Continuous propaganda internal and external.
Re:He's s shill probably (Score:2, Insightful)
Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under Communism, man exploits man, and they censor the Internet.
Re:Follow the money (Score:4, Insightful)
The rest of the latin american governments, except Chile and maybe Paraguay are controlled by "socialists".
Colombia and Mexico are both run by right-of-center governments (at least by Latin American standards). Both are firmly anti-Maduro, especially Colombia, since Venezuela has actively supported the FARC guerrillas operating inside Colombia.
Re:The Internet cannot be shut down. (Score:3, Insightful)
...like the US?
Re:He's s shill probably (Score:2, Insightful)
join the club!
at this point in the US's history, I can't tell the diff between capitalism and corruption.
Re:He's s shill probably (Score:4, Insightful)
People never seem to understand is Communism just exchanges one currency for another, instead of trading gold or dollars of people just trade political influence and favors. Naturally favors and influence are much harder to account for the dollars, so the tendency is going to be of course toward corruption as transparency becomes nearly impossible.
Re:He's s shill probably (Score:3, Insightful)
In capitalism, corruption lasts until someone comes along with something better.
In Communism, corruption lasts until the corrupt are unable to kill everyone with a better idea.
With any luck, you can learn to see the difference before one becomes the other.