Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for Web Video Uploads

An anonymous reader writes with some bad news from Italy, noting that new rules proposed there would "require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web." Understandably, some say such controls represent a conflict of interest for Silvio Berlusconi, "who exercises political control over the state broadcaster RAI in his role as prime minister and is also the owner of Italy's largest private broadcaster, Mediaset."

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Re:That's insane

[curious.corn]

Definitely running late: Il Frecciarossa promette di volare ma accumula ritardi: proteste a Termini. And these are the latest and greatest High Speed trains that have already cost a fortune in overbudget expenditures and debt: 44 miliardi di debiti di Tav e FS caricati sui bilanci dello Stato.

I'm posting this from Amsterdam, I can only take that much crap and this has been going on for 15 years already...