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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 08:10 AM May 2015

Ven says it's working on a way to kill Google and Mozilla so no one knows about its currency collaps [View all]

http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-to-block-currency-information-2015-5

Some ruling-party politicians in Venezuela will stop at nothing to hide the jaw-dropping fall of the country's currency, the bolivar, against the dollar.

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Citizens aren't supposed to know that, but they do because of because an app called DolarToday has all the information.

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Alemán went on TV Monday and said "the problem is that we rely on servers like Google and Firefox that are search-engine technology that we don't have under our national control."

Alemán said that Venezuala's Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation was working on a way to use the country's satellites "so that we can assert our independence and control this situation."



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-to-block-currency-information-2015-5#ixzz3bLOPHyNe
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