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Abstract

The National Assembly of Ecuador approved the Organic Law of Communication on 2013 aiming to guarantee the effective exercise of the freedom of speech and freedom of information as well as to encourage civic participation. This law has been criticized by several organizations such as the Special Reportership for the freedom of speech of the Interamerican Commission for the Human Rights, national and international journalists' organizations and most of the private media of Ecuador. Some of the issues that have been criticized are that the mentioned law qualifies as public service the activity of every media independent on their ownership or format, punishes the omission censorship and the nonexistent neutrality of the authorities in charge of the control of the activity of the media as well. This study analyses whether the Organic Law of Communication poses a real democratization of the exercise of the freedom of speech and information and a strengthening of the civic participation or if, on the contrary, includes regulations that enable the governmental control of private media and, therefore, casts doubts on the sincerity of the Ecuadorian legislator.

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Title
LA LEY ORGÁNICA DE COMUNICACIÓN DE ECUADOR, ¿UN AVANCE EN EL EJERCICIO EFECTIVO DE LAS LIBERTADES EXPRESIÓN E INFORMACIÓN Y EN LA PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA?
Author
Alegría, Antonio Magdaleno
Pages
291-326
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Jan-Apr 2016
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
ISSN
0211979X
e-ISSN
21745625
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1787038342
Copyright
Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) Jan-Apr 2016