The government of Nicolás Maduro has blocked numerous information portals in the country, greatly reducing the digital options that exist in Venezuela to know what is happening on a daily basis.
The cyber attacks and the restrictions to informative portals of independent editorial line multiply.
Numerous means of communication have been blocked during the government of the Venezuelan president.
The Government of Nicolás Maduro has developed in recent months a new method to consolidate the exercise of censorship: the cyber attack and blocking informative portals of multimedia content. With the almost total governmental control of television and radio, and the absolute monopoly of paper for the press, which is no longer dispensed to media with a critical editorial line, the digital universe, with social networks, is now almost the only spectrum of public communication that maintains its traditional vigor in Venezuela.
Through a selective procedure, carried out by the state company Cantv in collaboration with private companies, the websites of media such as El Pitazo, Armando Info, La Patilla and El Nacional, have been affected, reported El País de España.
The case of the blockade against the La Patilla portal was corroborated by the Press and Society Institute (IPYS) and the
Open Internet Interference Observatory. The connection to the media was not available since August 13.
César Batiz, director of El Pitazo, reports that the first attack on the media took place on September 7, 2017. "If we had 75,000 visits per day, we would go to 11,000 the next day." Two other blockades have been completed in 2018: April 9 and July 31. Batiz testifies that, in addition to the official blockades, they have identified cyber attacks "from different machines that are referenced to other countries," referring to Russia and Iran.
The Runrunes portal, founded by Nelson Bocaranda Sardi, can not be seen from many computers in the country. Neither read the columns of denunciation of this well-known journalist, nor some of the most acclaimed special works of its journalists, awarded abroad.
According to Balbi and Batiz, the modalities of censorship of El Pitazo have occurred due to DNS and HTTP interference, the connection transfer protocol, "and demonstrated," says Balbi, "that teleoperators have sophisticated ways of censoring this medium, which It makes it more difficult for users in Venezuela to consult it from the main Internet services. "
Other portals such as Crónica.uno, VIVOplay and Capitolio TV have also been blocked during the Maduro administration.
The Venezuelan regime is in charge of censoring the Venezuelan media and internationally, so that Venezuelans can not see what is really happening in the country. The Venezuelan media that can still be seen by television cameras only report that the country is in perfect condition. While we, the Venezuelans fall into decadence.
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