Telecommunications overhaul sparks free speech concerns

Telecommunications overhaul sparks free speech concerns

A comprehensive telecommunications reform bill that will significantly overhaul the Mexican government’s role in broadcasting and digital media is breezing through the Senate with the support of the ruling party Morena. The bill was introduced Wednesday and passed through committee in less than 24 hours. If approved on the Senate floor, the legislation would move to the Chamber of Deputies where it is expected to continue on its fast-track path …

In the face of the controversial propaganda spread within the country by the Trump administration, which has been considered racist and anti-immigrant, the Mexican government proposed a law that prohibits the dissemination of foreign political propaganda. The new Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Act, promoted by the Claudia Sheinbaum government and supported by the MORENA party, aims to regulate this type of content in any media. Howe…

The Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (Coparmex) urged the legislative branch to review with responsibility the Federal Telecommunications Law, in order to maintain the constitutional principles and the autonomy of the regulator. Coparmex explained the need to analyze it well, because of the importance of that sector that contributes 3.3% of the Gross Domestic Product and generates more than 265 thousand direct jobs. The reform in …

The initiative empowers the Digital Transformation Agency to block any social network or digital platform, said Vladimir Chorny. Isaac Rosales Shipyard Informs The current Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting represents a “very great risk” to freedom of expression by the vast powers it gives the Digital Transformation Agency to block digital platforms, said Vladimir Chorny, researcher at the Network in Defense of Digital Rights (R3D).

“Freedom of expression is based on the objectivity of everyone and that is what we would have to assimilate as authority,” said the local legislator for Coahuila. The reform of the Telecommunications Law proposed by the Federal Government, headed by Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, proposes the creation of an Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications that would have the power to regulate, promote and supervise the use …

My arrival in the world in 1999 coincided with Mexico’s democratic transition. For the first time —after 71 years of dictatorship and PRI-darkness — our country opened its way to a more free and prosperous future. I grew up with IFE, INAI, with free elections and critical media, with the freedom of expression of the opposition and autonomous organizations, with a decentralization of power. I studied journalism to be able to express the truth, to…