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Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet"
antispam_ben writes "The President of Italy, which will have the Presidency of the G8 starting January 1, says he wants to use the future position of Italy to 'Regulate the Internet.' Italy's President Berlusconi appears to be a cantankerous character, prompting riots when Italy last had the G8 presidency in 2001. This will no doubt be a serious effort, but knowing the fundamental design of the Internet involves routing around damage, the efforts could be more amusing than threatening."
Update — 12/5 at 00:04 by SS: Reader fondacio noted that Silvio Berlusconi is Italy's Prime Minister, not its President. He is Italy's G8 representative, and Italy will hold the presidency in 2009.
Never happen. The mafia will just disappear him. ;)
Benford's Corollary to Clarke's Law: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
fuck.it
The efficiency of a multinational organization and
the effectiveness of the Italian president will finally
make my internet experience safe and unoffensive.
This truly is a golden age.
I assume that since many people here support govt. regulation of industry and commerce, they should be all for this idea. I mean, if a complex system like the economy cannot function well without govt. regulation, a complex system like the internet cannot either.
Since the "President of the G8" doesn't have the authority to do SQUAT, who cares?
Since the president is the guy who decides on the G8 meetings toilet breaks, I think you will live to regret those words! With an unlimited supply of water and "one john to rule them all", Berlusconi will show the leaders of the world what happends when you cross him.
will make me take up arms. Food prices have gone up, there's no hope of retirement, the tap water is poison, they are spraying the sky with aluminum oxide, pulsing us with HAARP and now they want to regulate the internet!
I will start to take out these people by force if necessary once the internet becomes what it is not right now.
C'mon, censoring the Internet can't be that hard. Just get a Websense filtering appliance and stick it in the Internet's MDF.
The more mainstream the Internet becomes, the more it yields to dumb. Some people blame AOL. I blame humanity.
Dumb has large numbers behind it.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
Truly, Prime Minister Berlusconi is a great man, a marvel, the pinnacle of international leadership, and an example to us all.
When Obama was elected as President, he was the first to compliment him on his suntan.
Do you see what I did there?
Is there any guarantee that Berlusconi will still be Prime Minister in January? Historically they've changed governments more frequently than Cowboy Neal changes his pants... ;-)
How often does one need to change assless chaps?
Somebody posted a video of Tom Cruise acting like...well...like himself.
You mention this and don't post a link?
It isn't as much the black helicopters as much as it is the paint. I had a red and white helicopter once and as soon as I painted it black (white is a bitch to get bug splat from), it started doing weird things like flying over mutilated farm animals and following random people around the city and along the country side.
This behavior was very annoying because I originally got it to impress the chicks and that all ended when they would ask what the hell was i doing and my only reply was, it isn't me, I haven't had control since we took off. I ended up getting rid of it when I started receiving outrageous fuel bill when it decided to take off on it's own and do this shit.
Those other people might want you to think some organization is controlling them but I'm telling you, it is the paint. Those other people are wrong on a lot of things, Aliens don't just abduct dumb people either, the get the smart ones too. The smart ones just don't talk about it.
Okay, just to note, chaps are normally "assless" - they're extra shields for the legs, basically. Wearing chaps and nothing underneath would be odd, sure, but I'm just saying the "assless" qualifier is not really applicable to chaps - if they had an ass ("seat"), they'd be peculiar toughened trousers, not chaps.
Try "chaps and no pants" or "nothing but chaps, a hat, and a big smile".
Gee, pedantic much? An assless chap Nazi... only on Slashdot!