The Internet can't be something free where anything can be done and said. No, every country has to impose its rules and regulations: Chavez.

 

March 15, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez blamed under regulated Internet freedom for spread of gossips and sordid news in the cyberspace.

 

He called on the country’s authorities to crack down on those engaged in spreading false information through the Internet. In a televised speech, Chavez said ‘The Internet can't be something free where anything can be done and said. No, every country has to impose its rules and regulations.’

 

Chavez cited out a case from the Venezuelan news website Noticier Digtal, which posted a piece of false news saying that some of the closest allies of the President have been killed.

 

The popular Venezuelan President who has changed the course of Latin American history within a short period from a region totally dependent on US and Western capitalists’ usurpers to one of self-determining and prosperous Latin America, has been the target of many US backed media campaigns aimed at downplaying his massive social and economic transformations. Such transformations stand in direct contrast to the US-led casino capitalism designs for the world community.

 

According to Chavez Internet like all other media must follow the accepted rules and regulations. ‘That's very serious. That can't be permitted,’ Chavez said. ‘I can't put anyone in jail. There are the branches of government that should act, and the people themselves have to act,’ he added.