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After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship
An anonymous reader writes "The Italian government has proposed introducing new restrictions on the Internet after a Facebook fan page for the man who allegedly attacked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday drew almost 100,000 users in under 48 hours. However, the planned clampdown on Internet hate speech sparked a heated debate over censorship and freedom of expression, leading Interior Minister Roberto Maroni to execute a partial U-turn."
I'm sorry to say this, but there's an astonishingly high number of facts that show that your forecast is just wishful thinking. The first that comes to mind: the sex scandals of Noemi Letizia, D'Addario, the infamous Lodo Alfano. And these aren't nearly the worst ones, just the ones people know about, and just go "meh, we can't do anything about it".
Just so that you know: with astonishingly perfect timing, the "assault" helped covering the privatization of the Italian Army, hidden in the Finanziaria. No television obviously has spoken about it, and a google news search brings up four (4) results about it.
If this Internet censhorship thing goes on, I'm confident it will easily be worked around by anyone with a little bit of computer knowledge, because they're too stupid to do things with the help from people that know what they're doing. But that's a puny consolation, because most of the people won't be willing/able to do what will be necessary to work around it.
I f$%&/n' hate being italian.
well the internet is owned by the us army so they can do whatever they want with it right now, it's just better for them if they don't
Wow. For real, bloodthirsty hate it takes a leftist. If someone did that to obama you'd be screaming racism and calling for the perp to be imprisoned for life for hate crimes. Since Berlusconi's on the right, assault is A-OK.
Ever bother to examine the contradictions in your beliefs?
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.