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Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs
nx writes "Italy wants to restrict bloggers' rights by forcing everyone to register their blogs, pay a tax and have a journalist as a "responsible director". This law is clearly designed to curb critical voices and free speech, although it has yet to be approved by parliament."
I'm in favor of at least taxing that guy's blog. Interesting approach to using boldface he has.
On a somewhat serious note this is regardless of whether the blog is intended to be profitable. Yikes!
"I wish to God these calculations would have been made by steam." -Charles Babbage
Don't be paranoid. You'll still be able to blog about how great it is that the trains are running on time.
A Blog can be identified via the following characteristics:
1. There is very little traffic to the site other than the bots posting link back comments still trying to fool google.
2. There is a flurry of postings near the creation date of the site waning down to many once a month with the six of the last 10 postings being the message "No time to post today, too much work. Will try to catch up later."
3. The posts with content contain many unsubstatiated statements proclaimed as fact all discussed in an exasperated matter in a hardly subtle attempt to garner emotional support from people they don't know.
4. There are very few comments to postings other than self-posted comments providing clarification or an update.
I'm sure there are other identifying characteristics, but these are the ones that you can count on...
Thanks for the clarification. However, what sort of site would Slashdot be if not for the sensationalist headlines and trumped up accusations?
Why, they might even be required to pay a tax in Italy!
what sort of site would Slashdot be if not for the sensationalist headlines and trumped up accusations?
Something like this
Did you have to do that? I clicked the link and.... recognized the stories.
*sigh*
May we live long and die out