Thanks Nico, this is very interesting information. It seems likely that
you're right.
On a lighter note, I just got accepted to the ISOC Fellowship for EuroDIG,
so hopefully see some of you there? :)
-Raoul
On 19 April 2016 at 00:43, Nicolás Echániz <nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net>
wrote:
I'm having a discussion in the APC mailing list
regarding this information:
https://www.apc.org/en/news/government-and-association-internet-providers-b…
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/leaked-documents-confirm-ecuadors-int…
To my eyes this is a full fledged operation to discredit Correa's
administration, in continuation with the current trend against left-wing
governments in Latin America. These are the kind of operation that build up
to situations like what happened in Paraguay with Lugo, in Honduras with
Zelaya and now in Brazil with Dilma.
Correa and Morales are current targets.
Why I say this information is not credible:
1) the problem reported is from march 2014, but it's being used to
undermine the new Telecommunications Law in Ecuador which was passed in
2015.
2) the origin of this information is Telefónica, which as every big telco,
are always in the business of interfering with sovereign legislation in
Telecommunications. They are the ones who profit more from a completely
de-regulated market.
3) the traffic blocking described by the alleged leaked memo from
Movistar/Telefónica had a duration of 33min. It's hard to believe that the
whole incident could actually take 33 min. Consider the Whatsapp block in
Brasil a while ago. It took long hours for the ISPs to comply with the
justice system order, and then to revert it and it was of public knowledge
that the order was in place.
4) the AEPROVI (the association in charge of the Internet Exchange nap.ec),
explains in a press release why this information cannot be true:
http://aeprovi.org.ec/es/
... and their arguments are completely reasonable for anyone who knows how
IXPs opperate.
5) the organization that leaked this information has very little
background to check:
https://ecuadortransparente.org/
I just wanted to share this with you because I think it's important to
defuse this operations. Good legislation is the only way to effectively and
sustainably defend the people from corporate abuse; these operations
prepare the field for attacks on these laws, not with the people's interest
in mind.
Cheers,
Nico
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