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Please support this campaign against a law that might kill the Italian blogosphere.
14 years ago, June 14th 2009 No: 1 Msg: #76173  
Hi all, is a rather well known fact that Italy has plunged in the last ten years or so in a situation... well, hard to describe, let's leave it like that. There is a prime minister who makes laws for his own benefit and an opposition that proved pretty much useless, due either to incapacity or lack of will. The last in a long line of absurd rules will furtherly block freedom of press in a country where TV and major newspapers are already in the wrong hands. Internet in general, and blogging in the specific, have been so far instruments to give voice to a true, free opposition. Now this might be over as well. The new law, about what I've also published a blog here (In the Land of the Mastella the One Eyed Man Is King), pretend to control everything written in the web, with hefty fines for "wrong-doers".

There is a campaign called "Free Blogger" in support of what might soon become an extinct race, here is the link: Free Blogger
To partecipate, take a picture of yourself holding a "free blogger" board and mail it to the address contained in the link.

Thanks in advance to all those will take few minutes of thei time in an act of solidariety.

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