the official site Cuban reasons complained this Tuesday that Facebook closed its page on that social networkwhere other official profiles managed by the State Security have also been suspended in which dissent is usually criminalized.
Cuban reasons described the closure of his profile on Tuesday morning as a “frank attempt to silence the voice of the Cuban people in the digital sphere“, in a note replicated by the official newspaper grandmother.
According to the portal’s vision, “since its inception” its mission “has been to denounce the terrorist and subversive activity of the United States government in all spheres of Antillean society”.
In its spaces, the state media have already dedicated themselves to amplifying the discourse of the regime fabricate smear campaigns against opponents, independent journalists, anti-establishment artists and any voice uncomfortable for the regime.
The portal also described its suspension on Facebook as “censorship”, “arbitrary maneuver” and part of the “permanent strategy” of an alleged “media war against Cuba”.
“Facebook closes without notice, notification or possibility of complaint. It is a discretionary and unjustified action, which violates the rules of the virtual community itself and violates the right to freedom of information,” he complained.
“Over and above the coercive attempts, the outburst will continue to denounce the imperialist vocation of the US government and its hostile policy against the island,” he added.
In a conversation started on facebook of the Cuban lawyer and activist Fernando Almeyda, he and other users have denounced the cancellation of accounts of other profiles also manipulated by the State Security such as Guerrero Cubano, Karlito Marx Jeune, The Bad Word, Cuba is not Miami, Dissidence cool-sexy. DIARIO DE CUBA also checked the suspension of La Pagina de Mauro TorresCuban Legionnaire and other similar accounts.
Almeida wrote: “cyberbullying must be fought, especially when violent language, hate speech and harassment take their toll in real life“.
“If they want to defend the indefensible, they will have to do it with arguments, and if they have no arguments, then they better shut up and admit that there is nothing worth defending,” he added.
Twitter labeled some Cuban media outlets on Monday as “affiliated with the government” of Cubaan action that the official portal Cuban journalists cataloged as “censorship and stigmatization of the country’s public media”. The social network implemented the announcement made in August 2020, which affects the recipients and “potential readers” of the identified media.
From now on Twitter will not recommend or expand the accounts or posts of CubadebateRadio Rebelde, Radio Havana Cuba, grandmother, workers, Rebel Youth and Canal Caribe, among others.
all on the island the media is state-owned and controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba (CCP)to whose policy they respond in an editorial manner.
regime Cuba, where the existence of independent media is constitutionally prohibited and dissident voices are silenced and criminalized by the official media, it also uses social networks for its propaganda and forces its officials and journalists to amplify its message.
