That’s the nonsensical justification offered by a Venezuelan prosecutor for a proposed new media law in the workers’ paradise:
Under the draft law on media offences, information deemed to be “false” and aimed at “creating a public panic” will also be punishable by prison sentences.
The law will be highly controversial if passed in its current form. It states that anyone — newspaper editor, reporter or artist — could be sentenced to between six months and four years in prison for information which attacks “the peace, security and independence of the nation and the institutions of the state.”
Hugo Chávez’s left-wing fans will no doubt concoct another rationalization for this. They’ve had lots of practice.