Bolivian Officials Regulating Social Network By: Addison Norman

Bolivian Officials Regulating Social Network

by: Addison Norman

            Bolivian government is starting to control and monitor social networks. The country has around 8.7 million people with a cellular devise that can access social networks, and Bolivia has 1.7 million Facebook users. Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera has warned that he’s looking out for people who disapprove of President Evo Morales, and that Linera is writing names down. Lawmakers from the Morales’s Movement for Socialism party want to pass a law on monitoring social media. Some say that the use of social networks to harm or cause hatred toward the government and President should be stopped.  Officials against this oppose the government’s authoritarian strive to regulate social media.

            I’m glad I live in a nation where my freedom of speech cannot be taken away. This shows we how fortunate we are to be able to express our views freely. I think that a law shouldn’t be passed because it goes against human rights.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/25/world/americas/bolivia-social-media/index.html