BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

03/08/2007

Belarusian President Wants To End 'Anarchy' On Internet

President Lukashenka said in the "Sovetskaya Belorussiya" editorial office in Minsk on August 2 that the government will put an end to what he called "anarchy" on the Internet, Reuters and Belapan reported. "It is time to stop the anarchy on the Internet. We cannot allow this great technological achievement of man to be turned into an information garbage heap," Lukashenka said. "It is a massive loudspeaker, not even of the opposition, but a loudspeaker of voices hostile toward us, [of] hostile states." Lukashenka noted that such Internet sites should be ruled by laws similar to those governing pornography or defamation. JM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/08/3-cee/cee-030807.asp