{"guid":"62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","title":"Ecuador: how an authoritarian government is fooling the entire world","subtitle":"Guess what? The Government of Rafael Correa actually is totally against free-speech and we got proofs on that","slug":"32c3-7134-ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world","link":"https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7134.html","description":"The Ecuadorian government received international visibility when in 2012 it agreed to grant Wikileaks founder Julian Assange political asylum and host him in Ecuador's London embassy. Ecuador has since been widely praised for standing up to the United States to defend the freedom of the press and freedom of expression.\n\nHowever, the reality is not consistent with this image Ecuador seeks to project. Journalists inside the country face oppressive laws, huge fines and lawsuits for reporting on government corruption. Digital and physical surveillance of journalists and activists is in fact getting worse.\n\nWe will analyze some of the existing leaks that prove such activities. We will also give a first-hand account from someone who had to literally run away from Ecuador for publishing leaked materials proving illegal espionage against journalists and citizens.\n\nIs Ecuador really interested in free speech? We don't think so and we will tell you why.","original_language":"eng","persons":["Pedro Noel","Bethany Horne"],"tags":["Ethics, Society \u0026 Politics"],"view_count":67352,"promoted":false,"date":"2015-12-28T19:00:00.000+01:00","release_date":"2015-12-28T01:00:00.000+01:00","updated_at":"2026-03-24T17:15:05.496+01:00","length":3065,"duration":3065,"thumb_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/congress/2015/7134-hd.jpg","poster_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/congress/2015/7134-hd_preview.jpg","timeline_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/congress/2015/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6-timeline.jpg","thumbnails_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/congress/2015/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6-thumbnails.vtt","frontend_link":"https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7134-ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_title":"32C3: gated communities","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3","related":[{"event_id":1034,"event_guid":"import-475cf38d0e695ee755","weight":1},{"event_id":1368,"event_guid":"import-2f5b6d9d75ad65da1d","weight":2},{"event_id":1564,"event_guid":"import-6719b9183f1139890a","weight":3},{"event_id":1799,"event_guid":"Lv-uOMbLZH1T17ZxxJ-TEQ","weight":2},{"event_id":1918,"event_guid":"ix6eImcX7hzVSBSn6_CHdA","weight":1},{"event_id":2222,"event_guid":"Z4htibNZxLewwCmPKSdeqA","weight":1},{"event_id":2225,"event_guid":"_jFN0YWHACogrN4ddVWK0Q","weight":1},{"event_id":2246,"event_guid":"5hkhmuwi5J8ZHMfd5k7veg","weight":1},{"event_id":2668,"event_guid":"2a221be7-2dc7-4bfc-941c-0b11c5fa4fba","weight":1},{"event_id":2820,"event_guid":"1d7d4787-c77a-4e6e-9398-f3b4dcaa3587","weight":1},{"event_id":2821,"event_guid":"5db7d97f-59c9-42d8-abfc-6224bf075f08","weight":1},{"event_id":2826,"event_guid":"9ab1407a-126f-48d9-898d-eae7974324e9","weight":1},{"event_id":2835,"event_guid":"2ca47144-1fe0-4ffd-b0fb-e65b1e73f1ff","weight":1},{"event_id":2846,"event_guid":"527d5a8e-841d-48ad-89d9-b62fbee741b8","weight":1},{"event_id":2848,"event_guid":"658ebc92-ef93-421d-9547-f117f75eed92","weight":2},{"event_id":2849,"event_guid":"e34fb384-4da9-44c4-9096-1660d5d57962","weight":1},{"event_id":2850,"event_guid":"4f1a0717-6931-4580-9e49-5d523be045df","weight":2},{"event_id":2855,"event_guid":"52706f90-a2f9-48be-a4c3-786257fce233","weight":1},{"event_id":2856,"event_guid":"012b9dea-7d42-4428-acd4-4f84fa41e729","weight":1},{"event_id":2857,"event_guid":"b9b2c371-417c-45c4-a47f-faf7eeb11fbf","weight":1},{"event_id":2858,"event_guid":"17259b49-65ef-4726-ae03-a0b90e45806a","weight":1},{"event_id":2860,"event_guid":"81cba379-0eb6-4dbb-a48c-80feaea60939","weight":1},{"event_id":2862,"event_guid":"2f4cd1ef-dd90-4145-a734-141e5c081940","weight":2},{"event_id":2863,"event_guid":"9f89d94f-07fd-47f4-9ad0-c8dda94de175","weight":1},{"event_id":2865,"event_guid":"b2a8a8fe-646f-4e32-a4d8-67a163573e36","weight":1},{"event_id":2867,"event_guid":"341d7c6a-a8c0-47ec-8c24-4f6fc8639f3f","weight":3},{"event_id":2872,"event_guid":"df2f6e8a-f1fb-4736-8b4e-7e197ead73c2","weight":1},{"event_id":2874,"event_guid":"5f57ffa9-631c-429d-a11b-5b51bebe0f0f","weight":1},{"event_id":2876,"event_guid":"144b2208-bf0b-494c-99e5-665ed18f1e8f","weight":1},{"event_id":2877,"event_guid":"b5d1079a-7d72-45b1-8328-e5c3e60944c1","weight":1},{"event_id":2878,"event_guid":"1c70e359-0e63-4dad-b7f3-8377e3822286","weight":1},{"event_id":2879,"event_guid":"3f61827f-8b17-47b4-a43c-e0dce6532cbe","weight":1},{"event_id":2884,"event_guid":"fb537cde-7f1d-484b-971b-1d30a543ecfb","weight":2},{"event_id":2887,"event_guid":"cc9ede64-bad5-4ed0-92a3-4fbaf54eadec","weight":1},{"event_id":2889,"event_guid":"e9a8cc8d-a598-4bc3-83ac-82c1fe227b0a","weight":1},{"event_id":2892,"event_guid":"668ba44b-6800-4a8f-9544-b8e5cd7bd86c","weight":1},{"event_id":2896,"event_guid":"ab751ee0-8623-4a20-bab3-f82f8cf3dd82","weight":1},{"event_id":2899,"event_guid":"0c8f0e98-92ee-42ba-aa75-04fc50344904","weight":1},{"event_id":2903,"event_guid":"bfadd7de-3680-4766-a474-faa53c5f141f","weight":1},{"event_id":2908,"event_guid":"92891768-7427-4d48-8127-35d18318a63d","weight":1},{"event_id":2918,"event_guid":"f4da28f8-1e28-45d4-9fab-d1d36d20ca7b","weight":1},{"event_id":2919,"event_guid":"4d473646-e765-441b-98eb-653dfe6bdeb1","weight":1},{"event_id":2921,"event_guid":"f1c8f781-1ce7-451f-90e9-218ba94bc955","weight":1},{"event_id":2923,"event_guid":"ba780105-8cc1-4e6e-8552-5e3bc150b9ff","weight":1},{"event_id":2925,"event_guid":"e1efc11e-170c-4234-9ac0-4451a6631b01","weight":1},{"event_id":2928,"event_guid":"7504eeb1-1665-47fd-b21a-601d2641c41c","weight":3},{"event_id":2930,"event_guid":"31331405-a243-48ba-9536-83285542400a","weight":1},{"event_id":2933,"event_guid":"c50c5193-7389-4858-9352-14ea6d74b77a","weight":2},{"event_id":2936,"event_guid":"ff303155-f2fa-4c54-b9aa-ef47cd6e7704","weight":1},{"event_id":2938,"event_guid":"03c8501f-d327-4228-a9fe-2635370d25d2","weight":1},{"event_id":2940,"event_guid":"48219ef6-24b8-41ca-8cc0-ec309e4148e6","weight":1},{"event_id":3597,"event_guid":"87092ad2-d3fd-4a37-bb58-1fe71217a06b","weight":2},{"event_id":3619,"event_guid":"84ce6d72-3f4f-445b-801e-37f6a1331bed","weight":1},{"event_id":3649,"event_guid":"e0758eb2-0282-40d7-9c41-de607eb3d494","weight":1},{"event_id":3654,"event_guid":"ac80424a-f4dc-431d-95f3-3f85664ba2dc","weight":1},{"event_id":3661,"event_guid":"599ef527-fc3f-4474-8137-cf0e49cf118f","weight":1},{"event_id":3671,"event_guid":"4ef69e6a-026f-4b30-888d-af654b220a3d","weight":1},{"event_id":3673,"event_guid":"9e02145e-1d65-4398-b8e2-bd4c1faee0fa","weight":1},{"event_id":3676,"event_guid":"f6811c99-96af-44d5-b82d-5afe826b2caf","weight":1},{"event_id":3689,"event_guid":"1f7eb981-2819-4824-8f40-4ddde0be7bf3","weight":1},{"event_id":3724,"event_guid":"7deb971d-1768-4a56-93ed-fe0192a13025","weight":1},{"event_id":3734,"event_guid":"34ea8f1f-9fad-41aa-8424-e833f10e5e8b","weight":1},{"event_id":3747,"event_guid":"fc6c53de-ec9d-4966-a912-5cfaf54c0dd2","weight":1},{"event_id":3748,"event_guid":"09eb4f7a-8cf0-436f-aaa4-88190ee26e6d","weight":1},{"event_id":3752,"event_guid":"fc56c971-c65e-43ca-a92c-d98c7fb47bd6","weight":1},{"event_id":3757,"event_guid":"9d6db804-1074-4116-8210-cca78b335a1a","weight":1},{"event_id":3763,"event_guid":"8fbee7ff-b50c-4310-af9d-d44794669f25","weight":1},{"event_id":3796,"event_guid":"6d0ad07f-0bb2-48ac-af93-10c63ec45cb3","weight":1},{"event_id":3811,"event_guid":"68a745a5-f6b7-4c12-adf7-4f7c815f30fe","weight":1},{"event_id":4234,"event_guid":"f471ff12-1889-41c8-b65e-787b87c460db","weight":1},{"event_id":4238,"event_guid":"9ea86f2f-b236-431f-9027-8b31c0b2ad56","weight":1},{"event_id":4261,"event_guid":"3852e448-f6cf-4bfe-8b14-12d590075bd6","weight":1},{"event_id":4262,"event_guid":"1f0b7f14-df46-4076-851d-8b2b3cc57056","weight":1},{"event_id":4290,"event_guid":"d3c6e873-4426-4c4e-a89d-49c9573f61d1","weight":1},{"event_id":4297,"event_guid":"f0710900-b07f-4dfa-b762-af73aa4dc663","weight":1},{"event_id":4310,"event_guid":"98a24995-17aa-415a-9cf5-906faa0d1475","weight":1},{"event_id":4337,"event_guid":"444f2c42-36c5-4cc2-9a1f-2d9894eedd6d","weight":1},{"event_id":4667,"event_guid":"9b3292f5-f7bd-49f9-8c2b-5dc98d72e6a4","weight":1},{"event_id":4703,"event_guid":"6c45824e-f5a7-4961-8941-11eaa43f638b","weight":1},{"event_id":4930,"event_guid":"9a0efbf6-94d6-4c86-864c-caa1f3e929c7","weight":2},{"event_id":5217,"event_guid":"42433839-4355-2020-2020-202020202020","weight":1},{"event_id":6428,"event_guid":"6c44067f-a011-48ec-b302-fbaff1260b78","weight":2}],"recordings":[{"size":38,"length":3056,"mime_type":"audio/opus","language":"deu","filename":"32c3-7134-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.opus","state":"downloaded","folder":"opus-translation","high_quality":true,"width":null,"height":null,"updated_at":"2015-12-29T14:24:05.096+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/opus-translation/32c3-7134-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.opus","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8754","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":46,"length":3056,"mime_type":"audio/mpeg","language":"deu","filename":"32c3-7134-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp3","state":"downloaded","folder":"mp3-translated","high_quality":true,"width":null,"height":null,"updated_at":"2015-12-29T14:22:15.766+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/mp3-translated/32c3-7134-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp3","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8750","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":null,"length":null,"mime_type":"application/x-subrip","language":"eng","filename":"DRAFT_32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.en_DRAFT.srt","state":"todo","folder":"","high_quality":true,"width":null,"height":null,"updated_at":"2022-01-15T18:12:42.794+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/DRAFT_32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.en_DRAFT.srt","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/50753","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":208,"length":3065,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng-deu","filename":"32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_sd.mp4","state":"downloaded","folder":"h264-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2016-02-03T14:12:08.881+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/h264-sd/32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_sd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8749","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":181,"length":3065,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng-deu","filename":"32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_webm-sd.webm","state":"downloaded","folder":"webm-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2016-02-03T14:12:08.947+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/webm-sd/32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_webm-sd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8751","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":38,"length":3056,"mime_type":"audio/opus","language":"eng","filename":"32c3-7134-en-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.opus","state":"downloaded","folder":"opus","high_quality":true,"width":null,"height":null,"updated_at":"2015-12-29T14:23:00.622+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/opus/32c3-7134-en-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.opus","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8752","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":46,"length":3056,"mime_type":"audio/mpeg","language":"eng","filename":"32c3-7134-en-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp3","state":"downloaded","folder":"mp3","high_quality":true,"width":null,"height":null,"updated_at":"2015-12-29T14:23:12.282+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/mp3/32c3-7134-en-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp3","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8753","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":469,"length":3065,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng-deu","filename":"32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_hd.mp4","state":"downloaded","folder":"h264-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2016-02-03T14:11:58.493+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/h264-hd/32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_hd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8688","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":437,"length":3065,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"32c3-7134-en-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp4","state":"downloaded","folder":"h264-hd-web","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2016-02-03T14:11:58.137+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/h264-hd-web/32c3-7134-en-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8686","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":470,"length":3065,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng-deu","filename":"32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_webm-hd.webm","state":"downloaded","folder":"webm-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2016-02-03T21:01:45.732+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/webm-hd/32c3-7134-en-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world_webm-hd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8748","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"},{"size":438,"length":3065,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"deu","filename":"32c3-7134-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp4","state":"downloaded","folder":"h264-hd-web","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2016-02-03T14:11:58.298+01:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/h264-hd-web/32c3-7134-de-Ecuador_how_an_authoritarian_government_is_fooling_the_entire_world.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/8687","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/62290f8e-f515-416f-9c4a-b403474e94e6","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/32c3"}]}