Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout
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#2Interestingly my girlfriend has been using What's App to communicate with her family in Venezuela cheaply throughout the last week since they've been unable to get any news. It's really sad to see the government act this way and hopefully the realize that they're causing a lot of unrest in their citizens. It's always inspiring to see citizens standing up to the government in all these other countries. you see some protests in the States but it never feels near the scale.
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#3You'd think that after 10 or so such major protests in the past few years, the dictators would learn not to repeat the same mistakes everyone else did before them. Someone should write a "10 commandments" of sort for how dictators should react in case of major protest.
Maybe do what American presidents do: promise major changes and tell them everything they want to hear, and then do cosmetic changes at best over a long period of time, until people forget about it. That strategy seems to work pretty well in US, and it seems to pacify almost everyone.
It should certainly be much better than doing drastic stuff like shooting at protesters and cutting off their communications "to make them stop". That always makes the situation worse and forces the protest to escalate and even become violent.
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#4You'd think that after 10 or so such major protests in the past few years, the dictators would learn not to repeat the same mistakes everyone else did before them. Someone should write a "10 commandments" of sort for how dictators should react in case of major protest. Maybe do what American presidents do: promise major changes and tell them everything they want to hear , and then do cosmetic changes at best over a l…
And additionally, when you hear from your dictator something you've heard like ten times from other dictators in the last ten years - you become like really enraged. Don't you.
"What it claims as being foreign interference online", I'm speaking to you.
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#5I saw this post yesterday
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=180977
It shows how leaders of opposition are using images from protests from Egypt, Bulgaria and other places as if they were from Venezuela
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#6I saw this post yesterday http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=180977 It shows how leaders of opposition are using images from protests from Egypt, Bulgaria and other places as if they were from Venezuela
And what you are implying is "so let's just close internets"?
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#7I saw this post yesterday http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=180977 It shows how leaders of opposition are using images from protests from Egypt, Bulgaria and other places as if they were from Venezuela
What are you trying to say? You can check more than one...
i) Maduro's government is right and the opposition wrong?
ii) The opposition is [even partially] right but they are using the wrong methods?
iii) Maduro's government is not using propaganda as a way to gain the favor of the people?
iv) Other. Please elaborate.
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#8I saw this post yesterday http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=180977 It shows how leaders of opposition are using images from protests from Egypt, Bulgaria and other places as if they were from Venezuela
Yes, as your link very well shows, there are many occurrences of tweets with pictures from other places being used as if they were from Venezuelan protests. Unfortunately these often get retweeted unknowingly.
Here are some videos that can be verified from Venezuela:
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#9I saw this post yesterday http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=180977 It shows how leaders of opposition are using images from protests from Egypt, Bulgaria and other places as if they were from Venezuela
What are you trying to say? You can check more than one... i) Maduro's government is right and the opposition wrong? ii) The opposition is [even partially] right but they are using the wrong methods? iii) Maduro's government is not using propaganda as a way to gain the favor of the people? iv) Other. Please elaborate.
OP provides an interesting fact. There is no need to extrapolate more meaning than what's given: that there is media manipulation going on. To answer to your points more data points would be needed.
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#10Lets help them be able to read free information with modem dial uplinks, satellite uplinks and mesh wireless networks.
http://www.meshnetworking.org/further-reading/current-projec... http://tidepools.co/ http://servalproject.org/
Mesh Firmware for Ubiquity network http://commotionwireless.net/download/routers
OpenBTS is a Unix application that uses a software radio to present a GSM Um interface to handsets and uses a SIP softswitch or PBX to connect calls http://openbts.org/