Reply #61: Show me a media source in the US doing that

[DissedByBush]

I haven't seen any of them doing anything that would meet the very high bar for criminalizing speech or the press.

Sure there's libel every once in a while, and false reporting that requires retractions. This appears to be an instance of false reporting.

But those are civil issues, not criminal.

Chavez wants the power to shut down or block any site that says anything critical of him.

Sure, he is using false reporting by a site to start this.

Once the power is there anything that disagrees with him will be classified as a lie, and the site shut down or blocked.

If you don't mind a president being able to do that then imagine what Bush would have done to DU when he was in power.