Freddy Ñañez denounces social networks overtaking role of traditional media
Venezuela's Vice President for Communication, Culture and Tourism, Freddy Ñañez, denounces how social media companies, that are transnational corporations, have usurped the role of traditional media. teleSUR
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00:00Venezuela's Vice President for Communications, Culture and Tourism, Freddy Náñez, denounced
00:05that transnational corporations have progressively usurped the role of traditional media.
00:16I believe that what is happening, not only in Venezuela, but also in the world, shows
00:21the true dimension of these corporations.
00:29They are transnational corporations, which have usurped not only the role of the traditional
00:33media, but are also progressively usurping the role of the state, the role of the institutions.
00:46This somehow threatens democracy as we know it.
00:49It makes it unviable, it makes it difficult to develop as a political space, as a social
00:54space, as an institutional space, and also as a type of collective culture, since social
01:05networks have reached, as a communication technology, where no other technology has
01:10ever reached before.
01:14Venezuela's Vice President for Communications, Culture and Tourism also considered it necessary
01:22to build in the country a space for the thought that takes into account new technologies.
01:32Venezuela has reached the moment to legislate on this matter, and also to assume the challenge,
01:37to assume the problem with absolute responsibility, so that in the academic field, as well as
01:42in the legal field, as well as in the cultural field and in the political field, we need
01:52to build a space for thought that weighs up these technologies, that truly allows citizens
01:56to find out what this digital world and this world of algorithms is all about.
02:06So that we, as conscious citizens, can have the tools to debate.