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Colombia's #ParoNacional protests have highlighted main concerns for protecting the ability to use technology and the internet to speak up and organize.

@CIDH’s visit to Colombia to observe human rights violations must also consider these restrictions. web.karisma.org.co/una-peticion-p…
.@Karisma and other groups have pointed to three urgent concerns:
1: The official narrative criminalizing those who protest online as “digital vandals” carrying out “digital terrorism" nacla.org/news/2021/05/1…
2: The use of technical and legal capacities to block Internet access and protest-related content netblocks.org/reports/intern…
3: The role of internet intermediaries in contexts of crisis and how they can do better in guarding users’ free expression The three main concerns in spanish, with the image of a brok

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