I have heard from various sources some alarming information about the new Telecommunications Act currently under discussion, and I think this needs to be discussed at this forum and the views are diverse and really not clear that this new role is legal, that may well bring a new command and control from the government or from the public.
The truth is that many questions arise in relation to this reform so I tried to tell me before submitting this proposal and I've not found "on the Internet, the proposed law as the Minister of Telecommunications Socorro Hernandez is being discussed the web, I've only located a paper of Judge Luisa Estella Morales Lamuño 2007 with the purpose of obtaining the pronouncement of the Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of their organic status of that law
Really what information is abundant some references and excerpts from the law in their articles that I present below and address some issues:
"We telecommunications law enabling it to carry, but it prudent to take the National Assembly to be a bit of discussion by the community. The approach we do is first to integrate the functions of the ministry. There have not only telecommunications but also information technology and postal service. It is a law that gives us flat for the ministry to integrate what is the functions of this ministry, "the minister said.
held responsible According to the press, movement versions of the bill are "drafts".
"The versions that have circulated there (in press) are drafts, not final version, which we will announce to the whole population and especially the sector (media), for giving its opinion, "said the minister" . (Figures The report, 26/08/2008)
" The provision in the new Telecommunications Act, in short annihilates the right to communication and freedom of information by decision of the Venezuelan State if it threatened their interests and this implies, of sending a text message through television signals, radio, transport Data, Internet, to the general means of telecommunications and networking, and that the State has the power to even lie down, when deemed necessary, all voice communications, data, video and any other means that may be invented or inventing .
To this end, the new law, enacted immediately repeal in 2000 when it approved and displayed in the Official Gazette, is protected in Article 5 defines telecommunications as "any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic related, invented or invented "Tal Cual 20/08/2008
" With the strengthening of citizen participation through the Legislative Decree of telecommunications, information technology and postal services, the Government is on track to meet several of the targets set in the Plan of Economic and Social Development of the Nation (2007-2013), whose premises have been "self-development of individuals, communities and their organizations" through "democratic practices responsible and self-management. "
"The expansion of opportunities for citizen participation in the management public "and" the creation and strengthening of institutional mechanisms that favor the involvement of communities "are the objectives behind which seems to be the inclusion of Articles 60, 62, 63 and 65 of the standard.
While sections 59 and 64 as the legal framework in compliance with the guideline of "promoting education and social organization" and "strengthen the network of alternative media" found in the section called revolutionary protagonist Democracy Plan " ( The Universal)
one hand grateful to those participants in this forum to inform me where I can read the proposal, comp etc, of this Act to know in depth and meet the guidelines that govern it. I
also necessary that we address some issues that loom as these informative tips the following approaches: firstly explains the need to exercise greater control justified on national security, which means more power how to make compatible security state with civil liberties? What criteria will prevail, how can be compatible centralization of information flow in infrastructure in a network philosophy as those governing today's telecommunications processes? In terms of citizenship and participation raised the need for training becomes citizen not only to the technical use but for the critical appropriation of the tools to make these real spaces of creation - matter was discussed in this forum.
