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Mayor of Florence Sues Wikipedia

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the vote-quimby dept.

ZioBit writes "Florence Mayor Leonardo Domenici and one of the city assessors are suing (Google translation) Wikipedia on the basis of a (possible) defamation regarding the handling of public parkings assignation to a private company, "Florence Parking". The apparent problem is that both of their wives are members of the board of directors of "Florence Parking", and Wikipedia is reporting it."

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  1. Defense by Grax · · Score: 5, Informative

    IANAL, but I looked into this type of lawsuit when someone threatened to sue me for defamation.

    An absolute defense against defamation is that the stated item is the truth. For their lawsuit to succeed, it has to be premised that something untrue was said that hurt them.

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    1. Re:Defense by autocracy · · Score: 5, Informative

      In America, yes; the truth is not, however, a defense on its own in all countries.

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  2. Sue whom exactly. by qbzzt · · Score: 5, Informative


    The Wikipedia Foundation is a US corporation, which does not hold assets in Italy, so it can't be sued in an Italian court. Or, to be more accurate, it can be sued but the verdict would be meaningless.

    However, Wikipedia does have an Italian chapter ( http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters ). I assume that is the organization being sued.

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