Alessandro Ludovico on 5 Apr 2001 19:43:33 -0000 |
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<nettime> webzine national censorship in Italy |
Yesterday a liberticide law has been approved by the Italian Parliament. The law clearly state that the publishers of periodical news on the web who are not 'professional' journalists (or write on behalf of them) could be fined for up to 250 dollars and arrested for up to two years, and accused of the 'clandestine press' crime. Under the big publishers' lobby pressure they applied the same old rules for the printed press to the web. A professional journalist is a journalist that is registered in the National Order of Journalists (Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti). In order to be registered you have to take an exam with a National Order's members commission. Today lots of Italian indipendent webzine publishers, frightened by the announcement, announced to stop the activity. By now one of the major tech-zine is promoting a national petition against this senseless law. In the Italian Constitution is clearly written: "Everyone has the right to freely express his thoughts with spoken words, press and any other medium". -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Online - http://www.neural.it/ Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.apogeonline.com/catalogo/614.html # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net