Maduro Launches App for Venezuelans to Report 'everything They See and Hear'
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Venezuelan President Maduro has launched an app for citizens to report their observations, raising concerns about potential surveillance and control, with commenters questioning the app's true purpose and implications for free speech.
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After the election, every sane person knew that Maduro lost, however as the government didn't recognize the results and Maduro was declared president once again
A number of protests started in various cities, so the government instructed their followers to use the app to report any activity, during the following months it was scary to leave the house, the military and cops got free pass to search any citizen on sight, they were allowed to just take your phone and if something against the government was found they could take you to prison or use some kind of extortion.
Also, Maduro gave a free pass to the "Colectivos" basically criminals supported by the government with weapons to just terrorize the common people. IT WAS WILD, to be on the street, hear a group riding motorcycles and needing to take cover in a building if you didn't want to be shot
Much of this stuff was coordinated using the reports given by the app
And the app runs on Android and iOS. /s