Venezuela’s Chavez: Twitter Messages Are Terrorist Threats
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President Hugo Chávez has responded to the outpouring of messages — many of which call for his resignation along with expanded freedom of the press — by asking the National Assembly to start preparing legislation that would regulate the Internet.
Similar to what we saw happening in Mexico this week, government officials in Venezuela are perceiving social networks such as Twitter to be a threat to the state. Chávez has apparently even gone as far as indicating that Twitter could be considered a "tool of terror," and National Assembly deputies were quick to leap to the charge of "eliminating terrorist threats posed by social networks."
We suspect this won't be the last case we hear about governments feeling threatened by Twitter and other popular social networks. What do you think: Will Venezuela succeed in regulating networks like Twitter?
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[via Boing Boing]
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