Why is the Venezuelan gov installing a Twitter proxy just before the elections?
orvtech.comDuring past presidential elections the Venezuelan government filtered TV, Radio and shut down some SMS networks and most Venezuelan ISPs had a DNS glitches. At the same time many opposition websites that were informing about irregularities suffer DDoS attacks.<p>This year with the penetration of social networks the Venezuelan government seem to be preparing for a new attack, the target this time are the social networks.
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Ah, yes, because that vocal 0,2% of the venezuelan population on twitter is one of the bigest concerns of the goverment.
According to Venezuelan government, 6MM of their population are on Twitter. Venezuela has a population of 27MM. Simple math show that is a little above 22%.
Also what they fear are photos and news leaking out the country and other regions withing the country.
Gee.. I wonder why? Hugo Chavez will steal the election through fraud and thuggery again, and all the tweets his people see will be cheerful and happy. All the tweets we see will be pro Hugo.
The White House will say nothing about this, as usual.