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  • The Levi-Prodi law and the end of the Internet (in Italy - for the time being!)

    10/19/2007 11:31:42 AM PDT · by ScaniaBoy · 8 replies · 533+ views
    Beppe Grillo's blog ^ | 19 October, 2007 | Beppe Grillo
    Ricardo Franco Levi, Prodi’s right hand man , undersecretary to the President of the Council, has written the text to put a stopper in the mouth of the Internet. The draft law was approved by the Council of Ministers on 12 October. No Minister dissociated themselves from it. On gagging information, very quietly, these are all in agreement. The Levi-Prodi law lays out that anyone with a blog or a website has to register it with the ROC, a register of the Communications Authority, produce certificates, pay a tax, even if they provide information without any intention to make money....
  • A Dagger in the First Amendment

    07/04/2007 7:21:25 PM PDT · by neverdem · 27 replies · 1,357+ views
    realclearpolitics.com ^ | July 04, 2007 | Robert Samuelson
    "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." -- The First Amendment WASHINGTON -- The Fourth of July is an apt moment to reflect upon one of the great underreported stories of our time: the rise of regulated speech. Glance at the First Amendment, but do not think it still applies. Large bodies of political speech are now governed by laws, agency regulations, court decisions and lawyerly interpretations. Speech has become un-free. This does...