The Cocuyo Effect blockades began, frequently in the year 2022. For this reason, he made a collection of 486 NFTs, through which they transform the error message that users see when they try to enter the portal into art.
The monitoring organization Venezuela Sin Filtro (VE Sin Filtro) reported that the website of firewood effect is blocked in the main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country.
The blocks began, frequently in the year 2022, thus obtaining the first measurements with evidence of the blocking of the website. These restrictions add to the long list of internet blackouts in Venezuela, including the more than 35 news websites blocked in the 2021 regional elections.
Internet blackouts are implemented by ISPs on orders from the telecommunications regulator, in a process typically without a court order, without a clear legal basis, without transparency, and in violation of international human rights standards.
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The blocks are of the DNS type and are applied by Cantv, a state telecommunications company, and in the case of the blocking of Efecto Cocuyo, private operators such as Movistar, Digitel, Supercable and Inter joined, making users who try to access Efecto Cocuyo .com within Venezuelan territory receive an error message.
Efecto Cocuyo is an independent Venezuelan media outlet founded in January 2015 by a team of women journalists, led by Josefina Ruggiero, Laura Weffer and Luz Mely Reyes. It was born with the purpose of informing freely and transparently. However, the mission and sustainability of the medium are compromised due to the digital censorship that the Venezuelan government has imposed in the last two years.
NFT in support of Efecto Cocuyo
For this reason, he made a collection of 486 NFTs, through which they transform the error message that users see when they try to enter the page into art; They also represent the days that Efecto Cocuyo has been censored from the beginning of the blockade to the launch date of this campaign.
Each NFT is a way to financially support firewood effect and includes access to a downloadable file with the main facts reported by Efecto Cocuyo that were affected by censorship.
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