This paper is devoted to the study of the internal stabilization of the Bernoulli-Euler plate equation in a square. The continuous and the space semi-discretizated problems are successively considered and analyzed using a frequency domain approach. For the infinite dimensional problem, we provide a new proof of the exponential stability result, based on a two dimensional Ingham's type result. In the second and main part of the paper, we propose a finite difference space semi-discretization scheme and we prove that this scheme yields a uniform exponential decay rate (with respect to the mesh size).