Actually, here in italy the government has recently approved a bill which extends some povisions about newspapers on the net. It says that if you run an "informative" and "regularly updated" web-site you have to be registered as a professional journalist in the national register of journalists. How absurd: every site is "informative"... the bill was strongly supported by the guild of the journalists, so they can grab some public funds. Italian netizens are trying to raise their voice about this mess.
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Actually, here in italy the government has recently approved a bill which extends some povisions about newspapers on the net. It says that if you run an "informative" and "regularly updated" web-site you have to be registered as a professional journalist in the national register of journalists. How absurd: every site is "informative"... the bill was strongly supported by the guild of the journalists, so they can grab some public funds. Italian netizens are trying to raise their voice about this mess.