RightsCon Lightning Talk: Website blocking and network neutrality in Peru
Channel: Hiperderecho
Date: 2020-07-31

Lightning Talk presented at RightCon 2020 a cargo de Miguel Morachimo, Director Ejecutivo de Hiperderecho. 


Since 2016, Peru’s Network Neutrality regulation introduced an obscure exception according to which an Internet Service Provider (ISP) was authorized to block or discriminate between the content, applications, services, or protocols their users sent or received through the network if a “specific legal rule” asked for it. This exception was introduced at the last minute, wasn’t specified in previous drafts of the regulations, and according to the supporting study published with the regulation was built around a misreading of a 2003 law that permitted on-device parental controls, not network wide. Exploiting this exception, the Executive branch of the Peruvian government has begun to block several websites and application under a wide variety of claims since 2018. Moreover, the Government has publicly announced its intention to bring the “website blocking” solution to other areas of regulatory enforcement. Since December 2019, Hiperderecho is challenging the constitutionality of this decree in court but the case is still to be admitted.


More information: https://medium.com/global-network-initiative-collection/digging-deep-into-silent-internet-censorship-in-peru-by-miguel-morachimo-hiperderecho-fe4b58034361 



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