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Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-wiat-a-minute-here dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Blog by aicrules · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...