Is Ecuador’s ‘anti-imperialist’ president using US copyright law to censor online critics?

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You might think that using United States laws to shut up social media opponents would be the last thing Rafael Correa would do.

A vocal adversary of Washington, Ecuador’s leftist president has also made a name for sheltering WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange in his country’s London embassy, and briefly offering asylum to US intelligence uber-leaker Edward Snowden.

So, it might come as a surprise to learn that Ecuadoreans who dare to post content critical of Correa and his government on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook say they are finding their images and videos systematically targeted and taken down.

Even more unexpected is the justification being given time and again: the supposed violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by US Congress in 1998.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/150116/ecuador-critics-social-media-copyright

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1. Typical Correa. Thin-skinned and vengeful

he is systematically working to shut down freedom of the press in Ecuador.