In his blog Segunda Cita, Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez last Wednesday replied to an internet user about the incidents of institutional violence for MINCULT, blaming the use of cookies his “inability” to access the videos that revealed Minister Alpidio Alonso’s attack on independent artists.
Not only the audiovisual material that gathers the evidence of the facts is accessible on social networks (for which you don’t have to cookies), but the use of these computer files should not make it impossible for any user to access it unless he refuses to consent to certain details of his navigation. In that case, it would also hinder certain benefits associated with it.
What are the cookies?
A cookie It is a data file that a web page sends to your computer or mobile device. On these sites web the storage of the cookieWhatever equipment you use for navigation. Are not spam, neither computer worms, nor any other type of foreign virus.
Some of them are used to collect important information for advertising purposes (model for monetization of many web pages, as is the case with CiberCuba), otherwise they work to personalize the service offered by the site webdepending on our browser or the way we use the data.
We can avoid cookies?
Yes, there are ways to disable or block them. Something that may have aroused Silvio Rodríguez’s concern.
If you refuse to save your information on your computer, you can delete it in the “Tools” section and then click on “Clear browsing data”, voila!
When the troubadour browses through his phone, he can go to “Settings”, then to “Privacy” and finally to “Delete Cookies”.
Advantages and disadvantages of cookies
According to a European Union report on data protection, where it analyzed about 500 pages web, 70% of the cookies belong to third parties and track our activity to provide us with personalized advertising.
On the one hand, cookies They can be of great help to improve our experience on the web, create a user profile and avoid having to fill in forms, passwords and endless contact pages over and over again.
However, in terms of privacy, we should know that the less cookies activate it, we have more privacy when browsing through it webHowever, we will also have less personalization and more inconvenient and lethargic access to each site will be made.
So the key is to strike a balance between privacy and experience, by analyzing the real and objective risks we run: if we handle really sensitive information, if we are willing to enter passwords every time we access a browser clicks, or if, from a different perspective, we value our personal information in such a way that we avoid our tracks on every access.
The facts that Silvio Rodríguez could not see
The troubadour said on Thursday that he had only seen one of the videos in which Deputy Minister of Culture Fernando Rojas invites young people to enter the organization. “The rest is very confusing,” he said.
In the social networks and press media, if he is interested, Rodríguez will be able to access the images, videos and testimonials from participants on January 27 at the demonstration at the headquarters of the Ministry.
The group, made up of artists, independent journalists and members of civil society, showed up on the scene after Rojas passed some of the 27N members to a rally to resume a dialogue they promised at the November protest, and which they never kept.
The youngsters tried supervise those who would meet officials and denounce the arbitrary arrests that same day to several Cubans on their way to the place.
The police and army surrounded the area around the building and did not even prevent access those who had an agreed appointment, as is the case with the playwright Yunior García.
In the video that the troubadour managed to see, the Deputy Minister invites them to come to the institution. It is likely that Rodríguez did not have access to those who listen to Rojas himself when he demands that they leave their cell phones out and that the issue of the arrests will come up later.
Rodríguez also failed to judge when the Minister of Culture, Alpidio Alonso, reacted with violence to the protesters and he slaps one of the journalists filming with his cell phone.
A crowd of soldiers and police officers, in uniform and dressed in civilian clothes, forcibly drove the place to a bus. The testimonies of the beating some received, and the violations of others, are also available.
Silvio Rodríguez can access it whenever he wants.