(CNN) -- The Venezuelan National Assembly took up debate on Internet regulation just days after President Hugo Chavez called for online restrictions in televised remarks.
The legislative body was not expected to propose new laws regulating the Internet but to establish sanctions for those who break existing laws regulating media, the state-run ABN news agency reported.
At the center of the debate Tuesday were online communications that incite hatred, violence, murder and coups, ABN said.
"These [Web] pages can't be free to say whatever you feel like," Chavez said over the weekend in response to false reports posted on a news Web site that one of his ministers had been murdered.
The Web site, Noticiero Digital, retracted the false report, but Chavez said laws were broken.
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