Hugo Chavez: Twitter= Terrorist Threats

[LineDoggie]

Venezuela’s Chavez: Twitter Messages Are Terrorist Threats

Venezuelans have been taking to Twitter to protest threats to journalism and freedom of expression, leading the hashtag #freevenezuela to become one of the largest trending Twitter topics this week.


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(http://netdna.blippr.com/images/inline-face_07.png?1260002206) 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.

SOURCE:
http://mashable.com/2010/02/05/venezuelas-chavez-twitter-terrorism/



Whats next for this fcukstick? is he a tyrant yet?

[Flagg]

I'm guessing Chavez has his panties in a bunch because Twitter has been a useful tool in organizing protests and providing real time coalface news in Iran.

[Nuclear_Warrior]

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm gonna be able to log in here when I go back to Venezuela for vacations.

[Clear_blues]

Twitter from HChavez-lol we ttly pwn te mercans in arm cmbt, twitter so stpd lol

[Nuclear_Warrior]

Hahahaha, that's hilarious.

[IconOfEvi]

"o, hw i hate thoz gringos. Tey stopin mah BOLIVARIAN revolution!"

[Austra]

This guy has seriously lost it.

[Panchito12]

"o, hw i hate thoz gringos. Tey stopin mah BOLIVARIAN revolution!"

Gringo imperialist yankee pig no good. Can I have visa to Disney?

[Rayber]

I kinda like Chavez , he is damn right honest about eveything that has with him being mentally challenged and outright retarded , politics would be so much more boring without that **** ; ) Too many idiots on the Norwegian far left like the guy (i hate him, and i voted far left)

[coltfan111]

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm gonna be able to log in here when I go back to Venezuela for vacations.

So much for us being MP.net allies. :-(
lol

[3rdMillhouse]

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm gonna be able to log in here when I go back to Venezuela for vacations.

Use a proxy server.

[Nuclear_Warrior]

So much for us being MP.net allies. :-(
lol

Don't tell me you still want a communist hooker. ;)

[wigon]

What's interesting less radical lefties here in America know that Chavez is way too full of himself and doing alot of stupid crap in the name of socialism that is destroying his country. That's why people like the Bolivian President (Evo Morales) has distanced himself from Chavez as he has his own problems to worry about in a country with various regions that all hate each other due to racial tensions and economic disparities.

In Venezuela however, with heavy pressure from US interests with massive US funding towards opposition groups along with covert CIA activities to push for his downfall (not a big secret), Chavez has made the critical mistake of trying to combat this using half-assed totalitarian methods.
So his strategy has largely been concentrated on keeping the poor happy (his base of support and the majority of Venezuelans) but I think that his support is slowly wearing out as he implements policies that limit job growth. His land distribution polices were very popular but they ultimately fail because a family can only divide land so much before it becomes useless and campasino run farms are rarely as productive or competitive as large scale agriculture without intensive and costly government subsidies. While he had lofty goals I think he's brainwashed himself with his own Marxist economic/political theories that simply don't work well in a global economy. Venezuela is only kept afloat by it's oil revenues.
On the other hand, I imagine that it also is frustrating for Chavez to have certain wealthy special interest groups (backed by the U.S.) that can and probably will remove him from power one way or another and who may not have the best intentions towards poor Venezuelan's (as is the case for many impoverished Latin American countries that globalization has left behind).
Chavez needs to realize that the easiest way to inflame opposition is to try and violently suppress it (as Iran is learning) in a situation where outside interests can and will support and even arm opposition forces. Anyone who things America is not involved in that needs to be reminded that Venezuela is one of the top 5 oil importers to the United States. To say that Venezuela is not critical to America's economic interests and security would be foolish.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

So yeah I'd say that Chavez is screwed. It's only a matter of time before he's overthrown and a U.S. friendly leader is installed. America hasn't maintained its status as the #1 economy and global leader by being nice all the time to other countries.

Wigon

[coltfan111]

Don't tell me you still want a communist hooker. ;)
I wanted no such thing,lol

I wouldn't mind having Chavez's twitter address though.

[armored_diplomacy]

CHAVEZ
He´s looking at you


109188

Look how he holds the gun :


109187

(pss, Chavez, keep yourfinger away from the f***ing trigger ! :lol:)

And here He is mentoring his southern pupils:

109189 :cantbeli:

I sustain: why do we keep listening to his cr*p ?

[Nuclear_Warrior]

Where's that pic of Chavez with the MI-28N when you need it lol.

EDIT: here I found it.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/29/68188268.jpg

[terry104]

I don't think that Twitter is bad ,but i don't think thats it's so good either...Social Networking like Twitter are Heavan for criminals...

[Clockwinder]

Social Networking (Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Namz, Yahoo chat, Google chat, IRC etc etc etc) have unintended consequences in being used as communication conduits for terrorist and criminals. By using bogus accounts for no more than a couple of days at a time from dynamic IPs, with codes, these networks are untraceable and untrackable.