MIAMI, United States. — The social network Twitter today suspended the account of the television program With edgethe official media reported on social networks Cubadebate.
In addition to the account of the aforementioned space, the profile of the program was also canceled Squaring the Box and the project Cuba Young.
In the specific case of with edgeis about a program used by the regime to make false accusations against Cuban activists, opponents and political prisoners. It has also been used as a spearhead to attack different initiatives promoted by independent civil society in recent years, such as the Civic March for Change.
According to a note released by state propaganda, the suspensions carried out by the American social network occur, “coincidentally, two days after it labeled Cubadebate as ´media affiliated with the government of Cuba´”.
“This procedure has already become habitual and its articulated execution demonstrates its objectives,” he said. Cubadebate this Thursday.
The information indicates that suspensions on social networks against official Cuban media are not new and have affected platform accounts, journalists and personalities affiliated with the island’s regime on other occasions.
“All of the above confirms that social networks are not as free and democratic as some think, rather the opposite,” he points out. Cubadebate.
Last Tuesday, Facebook removed the page from the official media cuban reasons, a platform for defamation campaigns against activists, journalists and artists on the Island; as well as the profile of the anonymous youtuber Guerrero Cubano, associated with the Cuban State Security.
cuban reasons He described his cancellation of Facebook as “a discretionary and unjustified action, which transgresses the rules of the virtual community itself and violates the right to freedom of information.”
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