Morenista senator Javier Corral said there will be adjustments to perhaps 10 or 12 articles of the Telecommunications Reform Initiative sent by President Claudia Sheinbaum on April 23, According to a quadratin website note
The moderator of the conversations on the reform assured that the fundamental objectives of the proposal will be maintained, including, guaranteeing the right to Internet access, establishing fairer conditions for sharing infrastructure for small operators, as well as clear rules regarding interconnection.
Corral foresaw that the opinion be ready at the end of May, although its vote in the plenary could occur in an extraordinary period in the first half of June.
“We are going to be ready by the end of this month, for May. But if the judicial election is crossed, I believe that the ideal would be, passing the judicial election, an extraordinary period of sessions,” he said according to the Quadratín report.
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Among the outstanding points, he underwent the elimination of the controversial article 109, which allowed the government to block digital platforms, as well as the reformulation of articles 201 and 202, which opened the door to prior censorship of content.
The senator insisted that the regulation must clearly prohibit the dissemination of ideological content paid by foreign governments, without affecting those of a cultural, sports or tourist.
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“What there should be is a very clear prohibition, but also very limited to foreign governments and that sponsor, that is, they pay, advertising of ideological or political content, except of course what has already been ventilated here, tourist, sports, cultural content,” he said.
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