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Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill
Ah, none is more coward! writes "Several local and international news outlets report that the overwhelmingly pro-Chávez Venezuelan National Assembly is considering a reform of their Social Responsibility law to include Internet content. Besides regulations on mature content and mandatory airing of government messages, the existing bill includes broad prohibitions against 'destabilizing' and 'disquieting' content. The Assembly also has a proposal for a single national Internet access point, 'with a view to handling outgoing and incoming traffic in Venezuela.'"
The problem in the US is not the communists or socialists.
It's the Communists, the Socialists, the Progressives who are a bit of both, and every other radical revolutionary group all moving to take advantage of a perceived opportunity to crash the current system. They are not necessarily all plotting together with any sort of overt coordination, although some are forming loose alliances.
They simply see the coming economic collapse as their chance to pile-on to destabilize the society sufficiently that people will cry out for anyone to save them from the chaos and thus provide the chance to assume power.
The "reset" that needs to happen is in the direction of a government that acts in the best interest of the people, and I'm not sure that's possible at this point.
Historically, it has been only relatively small and limited central governments that have done passable jobs at acting in the best interests and according to the will of the common citizens. The larger and more powerful a government becomes, the less it is concerned with the welfare and freedoms of the populace and the more it is concerned solely with its' own growth in wealth and power.
The US Declaration of Independence provides within it's second paragraph the remedy for government that refuses to heed the wishes of the citizens.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html