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Decree-Law 35 and All Cubans’ rights

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Decree-Law 35: Cuba’s rights and those of  all Cubans (+ Video)

Our State has the necessary tools to preserve your security, as well as the inalienable and sovereign right to regulate telecommunications and information and communication technologies, which play a significant role in the political, economic and social development of our country.

Author: National Newsroom | internet@granma.cu 
August 20, 2021 12:08:06 AM

Translated by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews.

Cuban applications for mobiles

Photo: Dunia Álvarez Palacios

Information and communication technologies (ICT) constitute an already historical component of aggression with extreme doses of manipulation and hatred by the US Government against Cuba.

Radio was the first medium used against our nation. One of the most concrete examples was the airing, in 1960, of La Voz de América (VOA), the central organ in the media attack against the nascent Cuban Revolution. Less than a month later, Radio Swan, renamed Radio America by the CIA, swept through the ether after the defeat of the mercenary invasion of Playa Girón in April 1961 and the total discredit of the station. They followed in his sad footsteps in this dirty war Radio Martí (1985) and Televisión Martí (1990).

In the age of the internet, the White House has allocated millions of dollars in funds for subversion projects mounted on technology, and for which it created a Task Force destined to promote anti-Cuban leaders and strategies in cyberspace.

Our State has the necessary tools to preserve your security, as well as the inalienable and sovereign right to regulate telecommunications and information and communication technologies, which play a significant role in the political, economic and social development of our country. They constitute an effective means for the consolidation of the conquests of socialism and the well-being of the Cuban population.

This is precisely what the legal package whose approval was officially announced in April 2021 refers to. It was not born, as our enemies insist on making believe, in response to the riots of last month.

But it has been Decree-Law 35 On telecommunications, information and communication technologies and the use of the radioelectric spectrum, out of all the rules contained in the Ordinary Official Gazette No. 92 of August 17, 2021, which it has generated more reactions… and misrepresentations.

  • The establishment of rights and duties of the users of public telecommunications/ICT services, as expected, caused the alarm of the anti-Cuban machinery, which works precisely against what Decree-Law 35 faces in the defense of Cuba:
  • the use of telecommunications / ICT services to undermine security and internal order in the country;
  • the transmission of false reports or news;
  • the motivation for actions aimed at causing harm or damage to third parties and as a means of committing illegal acts;
  • the realization or incitement to transmit offensive information or harmful to human dignity;
  • the emission of sexual, discriminatory content, to generate harassment, and damage personal and family privacy or one’s image and voice; the identity, integrity and honor of the person;
  • and the call for actions against collective security, general welfare, public morality and respect for public order.


WHY WAS DECREE-LAW 35 NECESSARY?

The first of the general objectives of this Decree-Law is to contribute to making the use of telecommunications services an instrument for the defense of the Revolution, which is not to the liking of the historical enemies of our country.

But it also seeks to promote the use of ICTs for development, to strengthen sovereignty in the use of the radioelectric spectrum; and ensure citizen access to telecommunications services and constitutional rights; in particular the principle of equality, privacy and secrecy in communications.

In ten titles and 129 articles, Decree-Law 35 also addresses how to guarantee an efficient use of the limited resources of telecommunications / ICT; how to integrate research, development and innovation in the sector for the evolution of networks, equipment, devices, appliances and services; as well as how to preserve the development of human capital associated with the activity.

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A look at this legal norm allows us to highlight some elements of great value for citizens. In Title I, which addresses the object, general objectives, scope and institutional framework, in Chapter 2, it is specified that the State Council or the National Defense Council, as the case may be, provides for the implementation of special national or regional, for the management of the radioelectric spectrum in case of exceptional situations, such as military maneuvers, situations of radio-electronic espionage of the enemy, and other circumstances related to national security and defense, as well as internal order.

Title II, which is the object of the greatest number of attacks, also includes the rights of telecommunications users, operators and providers, among which is to access all public services under conditions of equality and affordability and to receive them with quality and efficient, equitable and non-discriminatory treatment.

It is, in addition, to receive the guarantee in the services provided, have free and priority access to emergency services, access to truthful, sufficient and timely information on goods and services provided by operators and suppliers, as well as of its prices or rates, billing and its facilities, and obtain the due compensation for the interruption of the service that is contracted.

In accordance with the legislation, citizens must receive timely information on the effects on the service, they have the right to use terminal equipment other than those offered; and to make requests, complaints, claims … and that they are duly attended to and answered.

Title III, Chapter 1, highlights that private telecommunications services are only provided to third parties with the authorization of the Ministry of Communications; and that public services in this area have priority over private ones.

In the case of amateur radio services, it explains that they are governed by the regulatory provisions established for them, and the specific frequencies that are authorized are used, through a general permit.

In its content, Title V, on the Universal Telecommunications Service, it is clear that the State must preserve and progressively guarantee compliance with the obligations of the Universal Telecommunications/ICT Service with respect to the fixed and mobile telephone service; internet access; sound and television broadcasting; access to public telephones; to free emergency and distress calls; and the application of preferential rates for people with special needs.

Likewise, through Title VI, focused on human capital and science, technology, research, development and innovation activities in the telecommunications / ICT sector, the ministries and other organizations are encouraged to establish actions to encourage access to the resources that allow adequate education, training and professional improvement.

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The CIA and hatred as a weapon

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The CIA and hatred as a weapon in the social networks

No one who, in the networks, opposes the patterns defended by their paymasters, escapes the fury of the salaried haters. For this purpose, the CIA’s cash register has no limits, nor does the low morality and the dastardly ethics of its mercenaries.

Author: Raúl Antonio Capote | internacionales@granma.cu
May 4, 2021 23:05:02 PM

Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews.

The Political Action Group (GAP), which is part of the Special Activities Center, a division of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), carries out, among other missions, analyses based on Big Data, processes profiles of subjects of interest and draws up action plans that are sent to the Internet Task Force, in charge of executing them.

Through Big Data, information is obtained that can be used for subversive work, it allows them to better organize the forces to mobilize them in the fulfillment of a certain objective. Above all, through the micro-segmentation of the public, they manage, in a particular and specific way, the concerns of each neighborhood, of each family, of each person.

Enemy analysts can build models capable of predicting hidden attributes, including political preferences, sexual orientation, how much you trust the people you relate to, how strong those relationships are, all thanks to the information that users themselves upload to the networks.

In February 2018, following orientations of former President Donald Trump, the so-called Internet Task Force for Cuba or Internet Task Force for Subversion in Cuba was created, subordinated to the gap, which is the same as the CIA.

It is in charge of hiring the so-called netcenters, who execute the campaigns against Cuba, through the recruitment of specialists who, in turn, gather around them dozens of cyber-criminals. They also have the mission of coordinating the actions of counterrevolutionary platforms and media, and of searching for collaborators on the island, among other tasks.

In cyberspace, there is also a sordid specimen, feared by many, the hater. The term, imported from English, refers to those people who are dedicated to harass others through social networks.

They use their victims’ physical characteristics, sexual orientation, race, ideology or religion to carry out their harassment. They use the pain, fear and insecurities of those who take their claims seriously.

Some act out of fun, resentment or envy, but there are others who are true mercenaries, people hired to conduct smear campaigns or character assassinations. That is why they are called cybercriminals.

Character, civic or reputational assassination, as it is also named in the psychological warfare manuals of several intelligence agencies and organizations in the world, is part of the methods used by the US special services to destroy the adversaries of the empire.

The cyber-assassassin seeks to make the person subjected to the aggression feel helpless, think that they are not in control of the situation, wear themselves out in useless defenses, become exhausted and try to isolate themselves, to get as far away as possible from their harassers. The purpose is to make the victim try to justify themselves publicly, and self-censure, which does not necessarily put an end to the attack, and may even intensify it.

They use repeated sending of offensive and insulting messages, highly intimidating, to a given individual, including threats of harm that make the person fear for their own safety; circulate rumors about someone, to break their reputation; manipulate digital materials, photos, recorded conversations, emails, steal passwords to impersonate identity; circulate fake news and cruel “gossip” about their victims; perform economic blackmail… Nothing, no matter how dehumanizing, stops the CIA’s hired hands.

When multiple harassers participate in the act of cyberbullying, the action is called mobbing, and is part of the strategy against Cuban Internet users, especially public figures. Hundreds of trolls, digital hitmen, cyber-mercenaries, all trained and paid by the CIA, participate in the attacks, which are perfectly planned and scripted in the U.S. psychological warfare laboratories working for the Task Force.

Revolutionary leaders, journalists, artists, musicians, personalities from different areas of the social, cultural and political life of the country have been subjected to intense attacks of this type.

No one who, in the networks, opposes the bosses who defend their paymasters, escapes the fury of the salaried haters. To this end, the CIA’s cash register has no limits, nor does the low morals and dastardly ethics of its mercenaries.

 

Cyber-business media against Cuba

2 years ago Granma,

Media dependent on cyber-business against Cuba

They are classified as independent or alternative. But it is enough to go after the route of money that encourages and articulates them to know on whom they depend and to which editorial line they respond…

Author: Walkiria Juanes Sánchez | walkiriajuanessanchez@gmail.com

December 28, 2020 20:12:52

Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews.

Photo: Granma

A media network is trying to legitimize the US hegemonic vision of democracy and freedom in Cuba. With their annexationist strategy, they constantly intoxicate the social networks with distorted information about almost everything that happens on the island.

They call themselves “independent or alternative”, but it is curious that all those who run CiberCuba, ADN Cuba, Cubanos por el Mundo, Cubita Now, Cubanet, Periodismo de Barrio, El Toque, El Estornudo and YucaByte, among others, live abroad, mostly in the United States, and their communication strategies are the formula for the political design that prevails in that country.

Maykel González, from the subversive site Tremenda Nota, publicly stated that, during his stay in the U.S., specifically in the state of Ohio, he attended an academic program with professors from the University.

“There was a contact with officials in charge of attending the press at the State Department, I had a private appointment with State official Priscila Hernandez,” Gonzalez said.

The June 2004 report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba records the main subversive lines against the Greater Antilles, including the promotion of press projects. Since then, all the administrations after President George W. Bush adjusted their media design to each context.

The State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) of that nation, finance this media machinery that has benefited from the more than $500 million that the White House has allocated in the last 20 years for subversion in Cuba.

In order to receive the funding expeditiously, several of these counterrevolutionary digital publications have been registered in other countries as non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Such is the case of the sites El Toque, through the collective Más, based in Poland, and El Estornudo, created in Cuba, and later legalized in Mexico as an NGO.

Carlos Manuel Álvarez, director of El Estornudo, arrived in Cuba on November 24 to join the San Isidro media show.

Abraham Jiménez Enoa, who was a participant in that same website, expressed that he does not know how much the total financing of the “media” is, because everything is done from the outside. “The collaborators that make the magazine charge for work, with a fixed salary of 400 CUC. Until I left, El Estornudo was financed by the NED and Open Society,” said Jiménez Enoa.

These so-called alternative and independent media disqualify themselves when it is revealed where their livelihood comes from, even though sometimes they try to divert attention from the origin of the money.

The researcher of the Center for Hemispheric and U.S. Studies, Yazmín Vázquez Ortiz, explained that financing, training and technical assistance are pillars, from which the conditions that exist in the societies that can be the object of intervention are taken advantage of, to promote resistance movements that can foster the change that the U.S. wants.

Those who lead and collaborate in these spaces do so through organizations based in U.S., European or Latin American territory.

The deputy director of this same Center, Olga Rosa González Martín, pointed out that since they operate as a private organization, they receive private funds, which can come from any individual, from any corporation at the international level, making it more difficult to link an entity with a specific government, and with its foreign policy objectives in a given country.

The Institute of Peace and War Journalism, Factual, Distintas Latitudes, Swedish Human Rights Foundation, Editorial Hipermedia, Diario de Cuba, Cubanet, Sergio Arboleda University, and many others, function as contractors for these mercenary press projects.

José Jasán, from the subversive site El Toque, stated that “the most acceptable thing for ‘the company’ is that by going to train a group of Cubans, it gives them the opportunity to pay them directly.

Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, from Periodismo de Barrio, said that they went to international cooperation. “At first, it was financed with the savings I was able to take to Cuba from the Lima Scholarship, and later we were able to carry out a pilot project with the Swedish Foundation for Human Rights. We achieved an alliance with the Norwegian Embassy, through which we are here,” she said.

In this design, the Cuban-American Aimel Ríos Wong stands out from NED. As Head of the Cuba Program, he distributes the funds approved to dismantle ideological and cultural paradigms from outside and inside the Island.

Maykel González, from the subversive site Tremenda Nota, commented that Ríos Wong called him, went out to “take a walk in Washington”, and recognized him as someone who has made himself present, who has been in constant dialogue with the actors, both from journalism and from civil society.

“We are working with about $7,000 for a quarter, from which we do the planning of the work, and it is allocated by all the fees we have to pay,” said Maykel Gonzalez.

As a strategy, they select their future leaders, train them, reward them, finance them, stimulate them, make them visible, bring them together, empower them, guide them, and give them spaces and stands.

“What they say is: no, but nobody tells me what I have to write, nobody tells me what the editorial line of my page is or of the articles I write. They don’t have to tell you, you already have that line assumed, you get funding, because you already said those things, and you know that if you don’t say them and don’t follow that anti-government line you’re not going to receive the funding,” noted Javier Gómez Sánchez, a specialist in audiovisual media.

As the computerization of the country has advanced, said Gómez Sánchez, people have been having greater access to the Internet, and this war has been increasing and organizing, because their possibility of reaching certain sectors of the population with this type of media manipulation has increased.

Dr. Ernesto Estévez, member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, reminded that this phenomenon is something that has been working for many years, with the aim of reversing the Cuban Revolution, of making a capitalist restoration.

Public sources of the US government itself show the increase of these funds during the last years, just when the Cuban State is advancing in the transformations of the new economic and social model.

This is confirmed by a call from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor to fund proposals related to civil and political rights in Cuba, amidst the provocations put  forth in recent days.

Together with the imposition of restrictive economic measures and the complex epidemiological scenario of COVID-19, the enemy media lined up to discredit the Cuban government’s management and delegitimize the social system.

“It has to do with the fabrication of opinion matrixes, which have two essential characteristics: first, they are created to manage the discontents that exist, related to certain issues, and to direct them against the government, socialism, and the political system; and second, to try to promote in Cuba a liberal thought, based on liberalism, which is the ideology of capitalism,” exposed the psychologist Karima Oliva Bello.

In the communicational framework, there are the so-called influencers with hypercritical tendencies, created to generate empathy and ideological tendencies in thousands of followers, through social networks.

The enemy press projects, in this scenario, are identified as instruments of the US Government in its unconventional war strategy against Cuba.

Whoever consumes the news published by the subversive media could come to believe that Cuba is a country that is collapsing. However, this is a nation that is living a different reality.