John Ozimek
The Register
November 29, 2008
Italian bloggers are up in arms at a court ruling early this year that suggests almost all Italian blogs are illegal. This month, a senior Italian politician went one step further, warning that most web activity is likely to be against the law.
The story begins back in May, when a judge in Modica (in Sicily) found local historian and author Carlo Ruta guilty of the crime of “stampa clandestina” – or publishing a “clandestine” newspaper – in respect of his blog. The judge ruled that since the blog had a headline, that made it an online newspaper, and brought it within the law’s remit.
The penalties for this crime are not onerous: A fine of 250 Euros or a prison sentence of up to two years. Carlo Ruta was fined and ordered to take down his site, which has now been replaced by a blank page, headed “Site under construction”, and a link directing surfers to his new site. Hardly serious stuff – except that he now has a criminal record, and his original site has disappeared.
The offence has its origins in 1948, when in apparent contradiction of Article 21 of the Italian Constitution guaranteeing the right to free expression, a law was passed requiring publishers to register officially before setting up a new publication. The intention, in the immediate aftermath of Fascism, may have been to regulate partisan and extremist publications. The effect was to introduce into Italian society a highly centrist and bureaucratic approach to freedom of the Press.
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November 29th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
SHIT SHIT SHIT!
November 29th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
and now a word from the makers of parmesan, the worlds leader in msg!
November 29th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
the internet is a harmless world.
-you can’t murder someone on the internet because you are not face to face
-you can’t rape someone on the internet because you are not face to face
-you can’t steal cash from someone on the internet because you are not face to face(although people can steal card numbers but that’s only because the banks want us running on credit and plastic)
so what’s the problem? the problem is that the NWO doesn’t want us thinking too much. they don’t want us exchanging ideas that could be a threat to their banking cartel.
November 29th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
The powers that be are afraid of the internet.
November 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I can’t get a break in this gaad damn country!
November 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Yes, and they are bringing this hitlerian nonsense here next. Gear up for the dark days that will follow.
http://www.TacticalWarfighterGear.com
November 29th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
A prison sentence of two years, or any prison sentence, for this is very onerous.
November 29th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Me: Judges are illegal.
I just declaired a law that judges are illegal. Any actions you take that are inconsistant with the Bill of Rights and Constitution are of the most serious fellonies and I will have to dispatch my officers to arrest you.
You’ll be given an unfair trial before a group of me and you will do hard,hard time. If you do not object, in writing, to my self proclaimed authority over you within a reasonable amount of time (which I am saying is 4 hours from now) then the above law will be valid and legally enforceable because I said so.
Sorry but that’s how it is.
November 29th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
rope the fucker up…… man why can’t i meet these sychos on a daily basis….. they would make good target practice
November 29th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
NORTON —
move to Palermo — you’ll find plenty, the kind that assassinate prosecutori.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
The internet is a harmless tool of collaboration, unless you are a crook in high places.
Then the net is a danger to your evil ways.
They hate the truth and that we are exposing them.
NEVER STOP!!
November 29th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
of course the collective mind is the worst scenario for them keep them seperate keep them competing against one another thiers no power in that !
November 29th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I am a terrorist.
November 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
What many do not get is that this is someting to watch. Even though this is in Itali, well it gives our wonderful law makers ideas, and we all know they want to shut down the net.
Wait for it, soon you will try and get online and see nothing except government sponsored pages, and you will not see anyting from Alex Jones and other fine people.
November 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Shit, what do you mean it’ll be like that here soon? I just spent an hour typing a comment on another topic, w/ no profanity at all, just researched truth, and for some reason it was not posted after several attempts. On the last try it even told me I was submitting a copy and “haven’t I already said that?” That was only the second time I’ve posted here cause I wasen’t sure about this site. Anybody know what gets a censored post? That was BS.
November 29th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Thank God for the internet
November 29th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Squawk!
November 29th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Bleet!
November 29th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Faaarrrrrrk!
November 29th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Help!
November 29th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Please help…please!
November 30th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Italian men all across the country are up in arms…all hell is breaking loose…rioting…looting…crying……
All because their women…refuse to shave their body hair any longer!
One particularly hairy lady said “if i want to grow a moustache that’s my right…my grandmother had a good thick moustache as did her mother and so on…my husband is angry with me because he’s a jealous man…jealous because he cant grow as good a moustache as i can”
Another hairy lady said “it’s no ones business if i wish to have one eyebrow and chest hair”
.
That should give the Italian bloggers something to talk about…viva la hirstute!!!
November 30th, 2008 at 12:37 am
And yet Italy allows the Cosa Nostra free reign. Timid judge going after the easy hits…
November 30th, 2008 at 1:46 am
In a sleepy California town just N. of Frisco late in the evening, our insipid hero Steve TheQueen, comes across a man with laptop upon his chest covered in a sticky substance. He takes him to the local doctor to be looked at. The doctor seeing that he was dead tells his nurse she can go home. Later while looking at the body more closely he sees some writing on the laptop screen, the camera cuts away as you hear a large scream, and the title appears THE BLOG !
November 30th, 2008 at 2:32 am
#25 Real Estate Clown
Fuck off!!!
Go peddle your “con” elsewhere…”Clown”…ya’ shifty peddling pimp!!!
Fuck off!!!
November 30th, 2008 at 2:39 am
#25
YOU FUCKING TURKEY
#15
“Even though this is in Itali” ITS ITALY YOU DICKHEAD. Are all Amiricons as fucking ignorant as you ?
November 30th, 2008 at 3:37 am
If the Italian public doesn’t like the ruling then they will do something about it and not just stare blankly into space like most Americans do. Italy has produced some of the most corrupt and violent political figures that goes back to the time they nailed Christ to the cross. The Italian media and government has people that fist fight live on air.
America has adopted the whops way of doing things and mafia-ized it’s entire government and private mafia military roman army, with the help of zionist thinking in doing business, now rules by fear and blood.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:55 am
I live in Belgium but happen to be of italian descent. I have several friends and neighbors of italian origin who are decent people. But they readily admit that Italy is extremely corrupt and infected by crime gangs. Sometimes people have asked me if I was proud of my italian origin; I answered that I will be proud after they exterminate their mafia and dump their communism.
Pack a gun and pay no taxes.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Fucking cunts. Don’t they remember their own Hilter?
November 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am
That’s another way of saying that blogs are disturbing the camel shit digestion process !!!
November 30th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Scared us sheeple might have ideas…We are all so tired and sick of these people that think only they have the right to freedom and life …money,homes…we could do with help from space biengs or for those that believe in god/jesus why is this allowed to go on evil controlling every facet of life…?Stop watching hollywood films/sport…and stand up for your freedom….
November 30th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Reply to Aussie…do you know that in australia you have FLoride in most of your water supply…the way you are talking at the moment that explains it …thicko..do not be so rude…Aussies are dumbed down big time …italien women are more buetiful and classy compared to your Dame Edna,s
November 30th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
haha just leave out the tag and it’s legal in italy to graffiti/post on the internet. what a joke they make of the rule of law.
November 30th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Just use a web host outside of Italy. Hosting sites outside of Italy are not subject to Italian laws.
November 30th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
#34 jan.
What is with all the negative talk.
No one likes you, honestly.
November 30th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Dear Italy… once upon a time, there was an organization which people commonly refer to as the Mafia. They were formed as RESISTANCE against the aristocracy and the wealthy power elite who ruled over the poor masses with wanton cruelty. It’s a damn shame that now they have joined forces with the very people they were set to resist… and now… they are YOUR GOVERNMENT. A bunch of criminal gangster butchers who have taken control of everything, working hand in hand with the very fascists they were supposed to be resisting. What a shame. It’s all over people… checkmate… game, set, and match.
November 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
They had Mussolini… not Hitler…
November 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
VOTE FOR A NEW INDEPENDENT 9/11 INVESTIGATION @ CHANGE.ORG !!!
https://www.change.org/ideas/view/conduct_a_new_independent_investigation_into_the_attacks_of_september_11_2001
November 30th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Omit the headline!
November 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I got breast fed when I was baby. That’s probably why I like to spend a lot of time on the breasts during foreplay. That euro judge is wrong about Blogs being illegal
November 30th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I apologise for the multiple posts, but I’m desperate to get some feedback. I feel like I’m in solitary here!
I’m a 3.3 year prisonplanet.tv subscriber, paid up.
Are there any other prisonplanet.tv subscribers out there that can’t get any subscriber materials later than “The Alex Jones Show – L I V E – Nov. 21 With Lindsay Williams”?
Is it just me or are there others in this shape? I can still stream and DL all the movies, but GCNLive (or someone in between) has been blocking me for a couple of weeks. I used to love to get Tarpley and Rivero and Barrett, but now they are blocked. I called my ISP Tech Support, and the operator could get most but not all (about 80%) of their home page.
Here’s a key fact: I can get it all thru VTunnel, BUT when it comes to DLing the podcasts, I run into the 4Mb limit. So I’m still stuck.
Anyone care to comment? I’m a paid-up 3-year subscriber.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:13 am
All of us in the US are paid up and are about to get ripped off. We should care about an Italian blog?
December 1st, 2008 at 2:34 am
Article 21…how fuckin’ many Italialn Govt.s’ have there been since WW2???? Fuck the dumb shit!!! Speak your piece!!! As an AMERICAN I can still fuckin’ say that!!! You Italians, you’re motherfuckin’ welcome!!!Arrogance…none more than you!!!! And you’ll be extinct in 200yrs. unless you get breedin’!!! Yet the WEST “IS” based on Greek & Roman law!!! Fuck that…The American Constitituion and the French Declaration of Man ARE the most important documents ever written!!! When you’re downrange…you’ll understand!!! Argonne,Bastogne,Okinawa,Iwo Jima,Midway,Monte Cassino, the 442ND goddamnit!!! You know, the most decorated Army unit in history…all Japanese-Americans…so step up to the motherfuckin’ plate!!!!!! They…Japanese-Americans…hooked your asses up in your future events!!!! Once again, your welcome!!!! “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”
December 1st, 2008 at 7:27 am
To that dopey bastard called Aussie,,,,,,,,,get the fuck off my planet!,,,,,,,,,Italian birds R hot..
December 1st, 2008 at 11:11 am
to Linda #42…yep you should care about the Italians b/c very soon you may have this coming to you as well! This is just an example of the NWO’s rules for your freedom to speak!!! Honey do care about other things besides the US!
December 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPb1JtslNpg
Lady officer cops a feel and more to a rap singer named lil wayne
December 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
What a great idea! How did Congress and Bush miss this? We should pass a similar law immediately. Hopefully there’s a bill pending somewhere, and Barack will sign it as soon as he takes office.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
wow this is huge..Neo-Mussalini? …. Im sure the Vatican has something to do with this.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
You all really have no idea how bad it is politically in Italy; the left/rigth scam is so ingrained that the country is essentially paralyzed.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
this is soo funny from the country that brought us the MOB hahaahahah blogs are illegal hahaha
March 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
GO Lil Wayne!!!
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