La derogación del linchamiento mediático en la ley orgánica de comunicación: análisis de las causas y procedencia

Abstract

Within the Organic Communication Law enacted in 2013, in article 26 was the legal figure called media lynching, which contemplated the prohibition of the dissemination of information directly or by third parties in a concerted, published and reiterative manner with in order to discredit or reduce a person's representative or public credibility. The sanction was the public apology of the person or people who damaged the affected credibility; and the publication of the same as many times as the information was poured by the means of communication that was carried out. The problem that arises and for which the study was carried out, is based on knowing the causes of the repeal of the media lynching of the Organic Law of Communication through their analysis and their origin by means of the three-dimensionality of the norm. -ma by Norberto Bobbio (validity, efficacy and fairness); its importance lies in the understanding of this legal figure, its social and legal development in Ecuador, for which the following methods were used: socio legal, descriptive, analytical and hemerographic to develop the problem located, thus formulating conclusions and recommendations regarding the proposed study.