regulation means in this case punishment. punishment goes from 6 months to 4 years for the owners of the medium and the direct responsible of the "crime". this law is expected to be applied to newspapers, radio and television but also to any other kind of media.
The question is: what happens when there is insecurity and impunity on the streets? can't you mention that because it will "give the impresion" that caracas (statisticly, one of the ten unsafest cities in the world) is unsafe? what happens when the government (like any other government in the world) abuses or makes mistakes? can't we attack it because we risk 6 months to 4 years in prision (and you don't want to be in prison in Venezuela)?
in a country where the government uses lists of people who signed against the president to restrict their rights, where companies and land are being taken from it's owners, where the capabilities of democratically elected mayors are restricted and opposing institutions are sistematically menaced, such a law seems to me like a very dangerous tool.
she says that they are stimulating fredom of speech. a "healthy" freedom of speech ("estamos impulsando, promoviendo la libertad de expresion. pero la libertad de expresion sana..." 3:02). and it's of course to them to decide what a "healthy" freedom of speech means. quoting zach de la rocha: "What? the land of the free? whoever told you that is your enemy".
