Re: [DC3] press operation against Ecuador's government

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 _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3