Venezuelan Communications Minister Freddy Ñáñez said Tuesday that the government is “waiting” for representatives of the social network X, owned by South African tycoon Elon Musk, to present documents about its operations in the country, where President Nicolás Maduro ordered access to the platform blocked.
Ñáñez explained that the “precautions” that Maduro asked Musk to take include the formal presentation of the company’s board of directors, which designates or reports, in case it already exists, who is the representative of X in Venezuela, and that this person becomes “responsible” because “he accepts Venezuelan laws and lives within the laws and makes legal use of his platform.”
“We are still waiting for them to take charge,” said the minister, 12 days after the president announced a temporary suspension of this social network – initially for 10 days – which, according to the Executive, has 2,700,000 registered users in the country, which does not mean that this number represents the number of people.
While the blockade remains in place – which has led some Internet users to use virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass this ban – “the social impact” of the measure “is clear” and “people can live without X,” according to the minister, who made these statements in an interview with the digital media La Iguana.
According to him, this network, formerly known as Twitter, is home to “a kind of digital ghosts,” referring to bots, which leaves a “very small real community,” especially when compared to Facebook, which has 22 million registered profiles in Venezuela, where there are also 8 and 7.9 million TikTok and Instagram accounts, respectively.
“What is going to happen (in view of the continuation of the ban on X) is that new social networks will start to enter,” predicted Ñáñez, who highlighted the power and reach of platforms created in China.
With information from EFE
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2024-08-22 19:13:09
