The Web, rectified
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The wiretapping Bill has the potential to shut down the Web. Should this happen, the responsibility for what happens thereafter shall lie squarely with the Government and with Parliament. The Web is the tool, the space, the medium that has allowed millions of Italians to believe in the possibility of democratic change. To elude themselves that they are actually citizens rather than merely subjects. Without the Web and with the television and most of the newspapers firmly in the hands of the psychodwarf and his P2-ist friends and mafia dons, this Country is headed towards an uncontrolled dictatorship and a range of unpredictable social consequences.
Within 48 hours after receiving any request, Website administrators will be obliged to correct any postings, comments, information or any other type of published information. Any failure by bloggers, operators of newsgroups and information sharing platforms and anyone else that could remotely be classified as a “website administrator” will result in a fine amounting to between 15 and 25 million of the old Italian Lire. This or any other blog may be asked to correct any comment, any video published on YouTube or any photograph. The more information you publish, the more corrections you will receive and be obliged to publish. There could even be a situation where someone posts a comment using a nickname and then proceeds to demand a correction.
This is a senseless law and the person that drafted it is either an Internet illiterate or someone that is out to gag the Web. The Blogs run by free information providers such as Martinelli or Byoblu will shut down after the first few fines are imposed, and hundreds of others will be forced to follow suit. I would have to employ 10 people simply to be able to comply with correction requests within 48 hours, and even these may not be enough. In any given year, I would probably have to pay a few million Euro in fines. A law that does not even exist in China or in Burma, conceived to screw any chance there was of freedom of expression. If this law goes through, it will mean the death of the Italian blogosphere. Should this happen, we will make a point of remembering who signed this Bill, who voted in favour of it and who is the one that will eventually countersign the Bill into Law. The Web is not some sort of debutantes’ ball, as these revolutionaries will soon discover. They may never give up (is it in their interests?), but neither will we.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 06:40 AM in Technology/Internet
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Posted by: Daniele Monti | June 14, 2009 08:00 PM
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Posted by: Daniele Monti | June 14, 2009 08:00 PM
Viva Garibaldi..Viva Italia Unita.. TV?
Mamma Mia......................Right now the US is soaked like Italy in the infiltration of control methods produced by capitalistic killers, poverty creators, information controllers. God should restart the world, we are headed in a big pile of crap containing toxic gases and the rest of the fish dead. The water supply polluted, the oceans filled with methane gas. While the rich guy has orgies in Sardinia and people commit suicide daily.. im sick, control the internet too of course eventually they will tax it so that noone will get any information on their exploits. You can talk about revolution you will be called a terrorist and thrown in prison. This world is the Devils and the angels cant even breath here.
Posted by: Dennis Giusto | June 14, 2009 04:30 PM
Of course, the Internet is a "series of tubes" that must come to end (pun intended). The United States is trying to push similar legislation(s) with "online gambling" websites (even though it is more than that, I'm sure). I find it very difficult to end, let alone regulating, the Internet because the Internet is a series of networked PCs. No government, hell...not even the U.N., would be able to pull such a massive policing. It would require absolute disregard to liberty and privacy to get the job done (not like they are doing it now subtlety), resulting in angry masses. To hell with tyranny, long live liberty!
Posted by: James S. | June 14, 2009 01:32 PM
have a look at this weblink to the NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/weekinreview/07donadio.html
and I'm quoting from it: "Italy is deeply confusing for Americans, who are steeped in notions of speaking truth to power and following the money, raised in the country of “Yes we can,” not “Sorry, Signora, that’s impossible.”
People abroad wonder what's wrong with us -italians- that we keep accepting such comedy instead of stopping it. I'm struggling to give the picture of how complex this issue is, and honestly can't understand myself why things have got that far..that bad!We've had enough, really fed up now.
Keep TV off. Use internet instead.
To Mr. Grillo: thanks so much for starting all of this, for putting yr. face in first line in all these years. I like the way you talk directly to the people, we need this way to wake up to awareness. But pls: let's moderate tones & words when dealing with/addressing to the counterpart, or they'll have something to broadcast against our cause (see Tg1-clowning)
spread the word, we'll never give up
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Posted by: Flavia Massaro | June 14, 2009 10:38 AM
the whole world must know what combines the Italian Government
approved yet another law porca
must stop
UPDATE ON
STATE PETITIONS AGAINST INTERCEPTION DDL
(signature too and share with friends)
www.repubblica.it/speciale/2009/appelli/dovere-di-informare/index.html
www.petitiononline.com/bavaglio/
www.petitiononline.com/57041223/petition.html
www.firmiamo.it/noaldecretosulleintercettazioni
www.firmiamo.it/siintercettazioni
must inform all by any means of communication
Posted by: Maverick.Ita | June 14, 2009 07:58 AM