{"id":468163,"date":"2025-05-16T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-society-of-newspapers-backs-listin-diario-and-warns-about-risks-of-digital-censorship\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:37:25","slug":"dominican-society-of-newspapers-backs-listin-diario-and-warns-about-risks-of-digital-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/dominican-society-of-newspapers-backs-listin-diario-and-warns-about-risks-of-digital-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Society of Newspapers backs List\u00edn Diario and warns about risks of digital censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SANTO DOMINGO.<\/strong> \u2013 The president of the <strong>Dominican Society of Newspapers, Inc. (SDD), Persio Maldonado,<\/strong> expressed this Friday his firm support for the newspaper <strong>List\u00edn Diario<\/strong>, in the face of what he described as an attempt at censorship by the international platform <strong>Network Solutions<\/strong>, which seeks to force the exclusion of truthful information published by the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maldonado considered that this action represents a new effort to manipulate public opinion and erase part of the history built through journalistic work based on official sources and legitimate coverage. <strong>\u201cIt is something that has been growing and to which it is necessary to confront with seriousness,\u201d<\/strong> he emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/sip-alerta-sobre-intento-de-censura-digital-contra-listin-diario\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"476726\">SIP alerts on attempt of digital censorship against LIST\u00cdN DIARIO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He warned about the dangers of these attempts to conceal information, pointing out that they can lend themselves to manipulations through algorithms that distort access to the truth on social media. In that sense, he highlighted that democracies such as the 27 countries of the European Union, as well as Australia, Canada, and Latin American nations \u2014in coordination with the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA)\u2014 have begun to respond to this phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAccepting the policies of digital platforms without question as universal norms is equivalent to renouncing national legislations and sovereignty,\u201d warned the director of the newspaper <strong>El Nuevo Diario<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maldonado recalled that both the <strong>TC\/0171\/20 ruling<\/strong> of the <strong>Dominican Constitutional Court<\/strong>, and <strong>Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights<\/strong>, clearly establish the legal frameworks for freedom of expression and the right to information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, he affirmed that the Dominican Republic has a valuable opportunity to debate, in depth, the effects of these policies on democracy, freedom of the press, and the exercise of free and responsible journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 The president of the Dominican Society of Newspapers, Inc. (SDD), Persio Maldonado, expressed this Friday his firm support for the newspaper List\u00edn Diario, in the face of what he described as an attempt at censorship by the international platform Network Solutions, which seeks to force the exclusion of truthful information published by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":468164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40537,21417,23775,28551],"class_list":{"0":"post-468163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dominican-news","8":"tag-dominican-newspaper-society","9":"tag-el-nuevo-diario","10":"tag-listin-diario","11":"tag-persio-maldonado"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-7.58.34-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-7.58.34-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}