Venezuela - False posts cannot be used to justify arbitrary control over the Internet

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is worried by President Hugo Chávez's professed desire to regulate the Internet. Chávez called for Internet regulation on 13 March, at the same time as he called for a criminal prosecution to be brought against Noticiero Digital, a news and comments website that wrongly reported that a minister had been assassinated. “Imposing restrictions on the Internet will not solve the problem of false reports,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The government is using this case as (...)

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