Venezuela Is Stepping Up It's Efforts To Shut Down The Internet

Twitter, Other Apps Disrupted in Venezuela Amid Protests -- Wall Street Journal

The Venezuelan government, besieged by nationwide protests, appears to have stepped up its censorship of Internet services used by demonstrators and sites that have criticized the government response to the unrest, technology firms and researchers said.

Dozens of websites including Pastebin.com, which protesters used to share photos, have been blocked in Venezuela, according to Herdict, an initiative under Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society that collects data on Internet filtering. Such blocks are usually carried out by local Internet service providers, which interrupt the connections between users' computers and the servers that host the websites or services they are using.

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My Comment: Videos and photos of young students protesting by the thousands is deeply embarrassing to the Venezuelan government .... especially since they are always trying their best to project an image that they are there for the young. Do not be surprise if even more web and social media sites become blocked in the coming days.

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Friday, February 21, 2014