Venezuela's counter-revolution won't be televised... but it will be on YouTube

[LoZoccolo]

When YouTube CEO Chad Hurley told a Congressional committee that his company "advances democracy," perhaps this was the sort of thing he had in mind.

An opposition Venezuelan television station whose broadcast license has not been renewed by the government is now turning to YouTube to get its message out after its transmitter was taken over by a state-run channel. Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution" has no time for media groups that criticize his government; Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) is now off the air, and another channel, Globovision, could be next, according to CNN.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070601-the-counter-revolution-wont-be-televised-but-it-will-be-on-youtube.html

[Gman]

1. We should have done the same with Fox News when Clinton was prez

[Codeine]

9. You forgot your "sarcasm" tag.

Here's one I prepared earlier!

:sarcasm:

[whistle]

2. Are Bush/Cheney planning to invade Venezuela also?

:sarcasm:

[NoPasaran]

3. Thanks for the link!

[LoZoccolo]

4. I found a link to another story in that article that shows the situation to be even worse!

I had no idea that stuff like this is in the Venezuelan penal code.

Start with Article 147: "Anyone who offends with his words or in writing or in any other way disrespects the President of the Republic or whomever is fulfilling his duties will be punished with prison of 6 to 30 months if the offense is serious and half of that if it is light." That sanction, the code implies, applies to those who "disrespect" the president or his functionaries in private; "the term will be increased by a third if the offense is made publicly."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5755-2005Mar27.html

:wow:

[NoPasaran]

7. Holy crap!

Good thing Chimpy has a sense of humor about that sort of stuff or most all of us here could be behind bars.

[Bonobo]

5. "Counter Revolution"... He he he. Good one.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. Otto Reich is very proficient at what he does.

seems that there are quite a few fans of his here lately

[JohnLocke]

8. It's the correct term.

If one opposes the Bolivarian Revolution, then it makes one a counterrevolutionary...

I don't think the headline is biased...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution

[Marr]

10. News outlets that "criticize the gov't"? More like "urge violent revolution".

Somehow I doubt that a television station would stay on the air for long in the states if it did what this Venezuelan station and it's owners have been doing.