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Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to ‘regulate the internet’
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Chris Williams
The Register
November 4, 2008
Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would use his country’s imminent presidency of the G8 group to push for an international agreement to “regulate the internet”.
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Speaking to Italian postal workers, Reuters reports Berlusconi said: “The G8 has as its task the regulation of financial markets… I think the next G8 can bring to the table a proposal for a regulation of the internet.”
Italy’s G8 presidency begins on January 1. The role is taken by each of the group’s members in rotation. The holder country is responsible for organising and hosting the G8’s meetings and setting the agenda. Italy’s last G8 presidency in 2001, also under Berlusconi, was marred by riots at the annual meeting in Genoa.
Berlusconi didn’t explain what he meant by “regulate the internet”, but the mere mention of it has prompted dismay among Italian commentators. Berlusconi owns swathes of the Italian mass media.
The left-wing newspaper L’Unita wrote: “You can not say that it is not a disturbing proclamation, given that the only countries in the world where there are filters or restrictions against internet are countries ruled by dictatorial regimes: those between China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia.”
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December 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Not good!!
December 4th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
What happened to freedom of speech? This is not freedom, its a dictatorship, a world dictatorship!
December 4th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This is the FACE of the NEW WORLD ORDER.
They are now trying to take over the world,
and that means taking us down.
The major force that has propelled their process forward
so quickly has been the internet.
DOWN WITH THE EU AND THE NWO. END THE FED
December 4th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Incredible, yet completely predictable: any police state/dictatorship needs to control the information flux to the sheople. The internet is a serious challenge to them and I argue that this could probably be the thing that could either make or break the NWO. If they succeed, we will plunge into the darkest age mankind has ever seen, no overstatement. We will have become a people stripped away of its humanity, indulging in all that satisfies our selfish, pointless desires and ceasing to be the creative mind that is the very essence of man.
I cannot and will not let this happen and am comforted by the many people on the internet that feel the same way. Really, it’s encouraging to see that the “human spirit of freedom, truth and justice” is still out there. No matter how hard we’ve been hit by the NWO.
I’ll end this rant by simply saying: please, don’t lose your humanity. Fight the NWO!
December 4th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Fuck you Silvio Berlusconi you peice of murdering corrupt shit..you may close down the internet but we still know your there! watch out!
December 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
HEY!
Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi,…!
You must know how many millions of suddenly not only peeved by rageing angry innocents whom you have no authority to usurp freedoms rights against! They will peck at you until there is nothing left of you, Sir!
Hands off our newfound method for communicate dissatisfactions, lest we use other, physical means to punish and act out!?
December 4th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Silvio Berlusconi..he’s back what a suprise! The Italians have always had a thing about facism….Oh yeh i remember it was called Rome..didn’t they kill jesus and then create a religion where the catholic church can forgive you of all your sins… sorry to dissapoint them but no man can wash me of my sins or stand before me and GOD..Sorry pope but FUCK OFF!
December 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
The Italians…. is it true that during world war two, they where the only ones to have reverse gears on their tanks?
December 4th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
there isn’t a NWO its Silvio Berlusconi and his rich murdering scum friends…how old is he? 45-50 YOA.
who cares for one day he will die. Pretty soon i hope…in agony I hope.What a peice of shit.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Come on pope! Bring it on..
So basicly your saying you can stand before me and god as long as i confess my sins…well fuck you! See you in hell you fuck up!
John Dixon
December 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Be prepared to FIGHT for a free internet.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Not to worry folks, Italy is FILLED with guys that make Tony Soprano look like an altar boy…Bada Bing! Silvio…you fucking piece of shit, see you in hell!!!!!!!!!!
December 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Italy has become almost as fascist as it was under it’s dictator Benito Mussolini.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I guess that means you don’t exist?? ohh! by the way you are a sheeple people too cuz you beleive in secular humanism dumb ass. It sounds like you R 1 of them there exxxxperts you know those who can do it DO IT and those who CAN’T like you!!!! try to LECTURE their BULLSHIT!!
December 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
No matter what you call it there is no doubt about an intelligence behind our magnificent programming. Just as sure as something designed and made the chair you’re sitting in, something programmed the DNA that runs the most complex machine ever made, called your body.
Do your thoughts cause your feelings?
December 4th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
KJ, God is real, we’re just separated from Him because of our sin. That’s why we need Jesus as our personal Saviour. He died for our sins.
“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.” (Isaiah 59:2)
December 4th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Control your information, control your mind. Under what authority? His own? Fascism. Give the man a burst of 20.
December 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
ok no surprise they want to stop people getting free information, i can’t wait to see what they will come up with… a few predictions : create some sort of association that you have to join and pay a fee to publish a blog, put a filters on contents so that websites like this will be obscured, track all the ip addressess, as they already do, repression repression repression. that’s the future of the internet. it’s not fun and honestly i don’t see at the moment a way to stop it different from direct organized action. one more thing : i’m italian, please don’t identify this old rich cunt with italian people, he doesn’t represent the population, just like G W Bush, Obama or any other president. No so called leadership represent the people, it never happened it’s just a wrong concept that people like to buy so they don’t have to care about “important issues” . i read some comments about italians, fascism, and even roman empire… we should all drop these nationalistic appeals if we want to step out of the cage they re building around us. That man can’t go anywhere in italy without the army watching his back, he s got a big SHOOT ME sign on his forehead and he knows, and someone soon or later will do what it needs to be done.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
god dammit! …….im gonna need more bullets!
December 4th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Freedom always finds a way.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Their afraid of the internet.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
he own mass media, the internet is exposing the hypocrassy of it all, many many people are turning away from conventional medias, to sites such as this which expose the truth..
they control the world and its citizens through media manipulation..they want their power back!!
FUCK THEM, THE HACKER IS THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF TOMORROW!
December 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Create an alternative internet. Who says “they” have a monopoly on the “internet” and what it is….
December 4th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
a right wing racist media mogul
the italian murdoch
December 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
they lie and steel 24/7 get off the grid now!
December 4th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Probably just coincidence, but, if you flip G8 a 1/4 turn to the left it looks just like the owl moluck mlolok, however you spell that owls name.
Cheers
~b
December 5th, 2008 at 12:22 am
I posted my comment and saw it and then it was taken off the list. Is it possible it can be set back in place so the people can have the knowledge and understanding from the Living god to see the danger they are in? thank you joedr@theriver.com
December 5th, 2008 at 12:31 am
All I can say is “Fuck him”…..
December 5th, 2008 at 1:24 am
It wont be regulation, it will be regestration. The recent Italian court ruling on bloggers not being allowed because they are not registered by bureaucrats is their method. That was their test case, and it flew.just like our guns- they cant take them so they will tax and mandate ammunition sales and identification coding.
there not coming there here — buckle up and prepare
December 5th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Maybe the hacking community can keep them in their place!!!!!!!!!
December 5th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Maybe the hacking community will keep them in their place
December 5th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Quit arguing & sniveling. You sound like a flock of SHEEP! It’s NO secret that the world governments want to control the internet. Control of information is one of their primary weapons for the control of the people. Any treaty has to be ratified by Congress. Congress is still elected. Get active NOW. Start writing your elected representitives, while you still have the right to petition the government. If your elected official doesn’t act the way you want, THROW THE ASSHOLE OUT! If Congress fails to act responsibily, find out how to REMOVE THEM FROM OFFICE! Remember WE are the government, not them. They need to be reminded that they SERVE US, not the other way around.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:20 am
I am from Europe but almost never agreed with other Europeans on anything. I believe taxes and gun control have no right to exist, so you can imagine how my views are popular among the eurotrash. I start using this word without remorse. I used to approve some of Berlusconi’s measures, when he cut taxes, for instance. But now I realize he’s just a little less creepy than leftists.
Pack a gun and pay no taxes.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:34 am
No doubt the regulations will favor his own media properties. Scum.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Smels like Mussolini, fascist dog berlusconi, stay from the fucking internet, fucking nazi creep.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Apparently Fascism still rules in Italy.
No wonder 85% of Euroland civilians do no want the European Union.
Vote no to the European Union in May.
Yes to strong independent Nation states.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:07 am
You left out dictatorship ruled Austrailia
December 5th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Why would anyone elect a media mogul as president. That would be like us electing Rupert Murdoch as president. The Italians were just asking for trouble electing this clown
December 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Google wont let this happen, not on a global scale
December 5th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
You can extort, torture and kill, but when you take away internet beware rapture fall upon you.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
The only faith I hold is in that of intelligent, independent thinkers. If we have to, I’ll lay my own cables. We can write our own protocols too!
December 8th, 2008 at 5:32 am
they wil create their own version of the internet, for free and accessable averywhere. to be used for brainwashing just like the media, and as most people cant afford internet or find it expensive….. what you think they wil use?