In his blog Segona Cita, Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez answered an Internet user about the incidents of institutional violence last Wednesday in front of MINCULT, and attributed the use of cookies his “inability” to access videos that revealed Minister Alpidio Alonso’s attack on independent artists.
Not only the audiovisual material that collects the evidence of the facts is accessible on social networks (which does not require you to accept cookies), But the use of these computer files should not prevent access by any user, unless the user refuses to grant permission for certain details of their browsing. In this case, it would also hinder certain benefits associated with them.
What are the cookies?
one cookie is a data file that a webpage sends to your computer or mobile device. In these places web storage of the will always be requested cookie, So much for the equipment you use for navigation. are not junk mailNo computer worms, no other weird virus.
Some of them are used to collect key information for advertising purposes (monetization model of many web pages, as is the case of CiberCuba), In other cases, they work to customize the service offered by the site web, Depending on our browser or how we use the data.
We can avoid them cookies?
Yes, there are ways to turn them off or lock them. Something that may have triggered Silvio Rodríguez’s concern.
If you refused to have your information stored on your computer, you could delete it in the “Tools” section and then click “Clear Browsing Data”, ready!
If the troubadour browses through their phone, they can go to “Settings,” then “Privacy,” and finally “Clear Cookies.”
Advantages and disadvantages of cookies
According to a European Union report on data protection, where he analyzed about 500 pages web, 70% of the cookies they are third parties and track our business to offer us personalized advertising.
On the one hand, the cookies they can be a great help in improving our internet experience, creating a user profile and preventing us from having to fill out forms, passwords and endless contact sheets over and over again.
However, in terms of privacy, we need to know that while less cookies we activate, the more privacy we will have when browsing the web, But we will also have less customization and more inconvenient and sleepy will make us access each site.
So the key is to find a balance between privacy and experience, analyzing the real risks and goals we run: if we use real sensitive information, if we are willing to enter passwords every time we click on a browser, or if, from d ‘another perspective, we appreciate our personal information about to avoid our traces in any access.
The facts that Silvio Rodríguez could not see
The troubadour said on Thursday that he had only managed to see one of the videos where Deputy Minister of Culture Fernando Rojas invites young people to join the body. “The rest, very confusing,” he said.
On social media and the media, Rodríguez will be able to access images, videos and testimonials from participants this 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 at the venue after Rojas convened several of the members of the 27N to a meeting to resume a dialogue they promised when the protest in November, and which they never fulfilled.
The young people were trying accompany those who were going to meet with officials and to denounce the arbitrary arrests that same day to several Cubans who were on their way to the scene.
Police and military surrounded the area around the building, preventing entry even into those who had an agreed appointment, as is the case of the playwright Yunior García.
In the video that the troubadour managed to see, the deputy minister invites them to go to the institution. It is likely that Rodriguez will not be able to access those heard in Rojas himself when he demands that they have to leave their mobile phones outside and that he would see the problem of arrests later.
Rodriguez also failed to review when Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso responds violently to protesters and he lends a hand to one of the journalists who was filming with his cell phone.
A mob of soldiers and police, in uniform and dressed in civilian clothes, forcibly evacuated the place and took the protesters to a bus. Witnesses to the beating received by some, and the violations suffered by others, Are also available.
Silvio Rodríguez can access it when he likes.