Tag: chile

• The Chilean telecommunications regulator Subtel has banned mobile operators from offering so-called zero-rated social media apps – services like Twitter and Facebook that, through deals with the carriers, can be used without having to pay for mobile data. Subtel says such practices are illegal under Chilean net neutrality law. These offers are particularly popular in…

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  05/06/2014

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  chile, Latin America, net neutrality, social media, telecoms

• Those tasked with drafting or promoting legislation guaranteeing the right to information face a number of challenges. How should the regime of exceptions be crafted so as to strike an appropriate balance between the right to know and the need for secrecy to protect certain key public and private interests? How extensive should the obligation…

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  01/05/2014

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  chile, colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, peru, research, right to information, RTI, Uruguay

• Protests in Brazil have highlighted, most recently, the growing use of social media for citizens to organize politically, outside the traditional parties and union structures of the past. New communication technologies have also played a key role in political organization and protests throughout the hemisphere, including the #YoSoy132 protests in Mexico, education protests in Chile,…

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  01/05/2014

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  argentina, Brazil, chile, Latin America, mexico, social movements, Technology

• The announcement that the La Nación newspaper of Chile is closing down has drawn the attention of journalists, analysts and opposition lawmakers to the heavy concentration of press ownership, now in the hands of only two business groups, and to the lack of regulations to ensure media pluralism. “The state must create public media in…

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  12/10/2012

  Clippings, News, Policy, Law & Regulation

  chile, economics, Latin America, Newspapers, pluralism, politics

• The announcement that the La Nación newspaper of Chile is closing down has drawn the attention of journalists, analysts and opposition lawmakers to the heavy concentration of press ownership, now in the hands of only two business groups, and to the lack of regulations to ensure media pluralism. “The state must create public media in…

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  12/10/2012

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  chile, economics, Latin America, media pluralism, Newspapers, politics