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Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter

First time accepted submitter Saúl González D. writes "After two days of massive protests, the Venezuelan government has finally taken to censoring Twitter. Users of Venezuela's largest ISP CANTV, which is owned by the government, are reporting that either Twitter-embedded images will not load or that Twitter will fail to load at all. I am a user myself and can confirm that only Twitter is affected and that switching to the Tor browser solves the issue. As news of the protests are not televised, for most Venezuelans Twitter and Facebook are their only means of obtaining real-time information.
Despite a progressive worsening of civil and human rights, governments of the world have shied away from directly labeling Maduro a dictator or demanding the OAS' Democratic Charter be activated. Will open censorship be the tipping point?"

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  1. Re:En Venezuela hay mucho PETROLEO... by AlphaWolf_HK · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's all good though because its nationalized. Nationalized means it goes to THE PEOPLE! Right? After all, we all know that when people can vote themselves entitlements, they never abuse them.

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