[Chapter-delegates] Law & Contents control / Ecuador

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Carlos,

like Joly, I'd ask you what is in common and what not between this 
proposed law and others worldwide.

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Carlos Vera wrote:

> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:52:04 -0500
> From: Carlos Vera <cveraq at gmail.com>
> To: Freddy Linares Torres <freddylinares at gmail.com>
> Cc: Chapter Delegates <Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Law & Contents control / Ecuador
> 
> 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,
>>
>> -------
>> Freddy Linares Torres
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