BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
27/03/2009
Byelorussian Orthodox Church seeks approval to regulate Internet
Minsk, March 27, Interfax - Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk offered the Byelorussian state to regulate Internet at the legislative level.
"There's an urgent need to effectively regulate the contents of Internet at the legislative level," Metropolitan Filaret said on Friday at the meeting between the country's president Alexander Lukashenko and members of the Byelorussian Orthodox Synod.
The Metropolitan believes Byelorussia can use Chinese experience where "responsibility for using Internet lays on Internet providers instead of the state."
According to Metropolitan Filaret, "Internet is an open door to the world and has enormous influence on people's minds."
"The main threat is that most vulnerable categories, children and teen have easy access to immoral information, while their psyche is unstable. Virtual chaos is very dangerous for them," the Metropolitan said.
He hopes that the state will pay attention to the problem of "open access to dirty resources."
Source:
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5849
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