[Chapter-delegates] Law & Contents control / Ecuador

[Carlos Vera]

Freddy and all: Now in Ecuador, the parliament is discussing a new
communication law. It´s said for some sectors that the proposed text is
trying to control free speech in any technological platform. In my opinion
this is not exact.

Most main content providers has policies or self regulation or laws that
work for them in issues such as the publication of some content that
infringe laws or Intellectual property or have some words not permitted..
they use to ban this kind of content using filters for such words or putting
down some content (videos, pictures, words, etc) after some claim. For
example we can have youtube not showing some videos in certain countries...
or yahoo banning some words (like verga in spanish or fuck for example)
automatically or manually under some advice or report. The same with
facebook for example or google..

So this kind of regulations works in this way.. and it is necessary to have
some way to law enforce the right of users or authorities so content
providers  and infrastructure providers have the way to follow the law under
certain circumstances.. so you have the way to control not maybe what people
publish but what you maintain published after a warning..

No matter what, this is a political discussion with some people in one side
and other people in the other so we need to understand how this works and
that this exists already in most legislation all around the world.

Carlos

El 26 de julio de 2011 19:54, Freddy Linares Torres <freddylinares at gmail.com
> escribió:

> Perhaps Carlos could give us more information.
>
> http://www.radiosucre.com.ec/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16203:ley-de-medios-incluye-control-de-contenido-que-se-publica-en-internet&catid=1:politica&Itemid=24
>
> Saludos,
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