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Titolo: 3° AVVISO: PROSSIMA CHIUSURA USENET

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Facebook Says Italy’s Plan to Block Web Content Goes Too Far
By Steve Scherer and Giovanni Salzano
Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc., the world’s largest 
social-networking site, said that it is concerned about Italy’s proposed 
law to force Internet providers to block access to Web sites that incite 
or justify criminal behavior.
“We have not seen the language of the bill, but reports about it concern 
us,” said Debbie Frost, a Facebook spokeswoman, in an e-mail. The 
legislation is “akin to shutting down the country’s entire railroad 
network because of some objectionable graffiti in one train station.”
The bill, passed in the Senate last week, would give the Interior 
Ministry the power to order Internet providers including Fastweb SpA, 
Telecom Italia SpA or Tiscali SpA to remove criminal content within 24 
hours or face a fine as high as 250,000 euros ($320,850). Prosecutors 
would have to verify criminal content before the ministry can act, 
according to the bill.
Italian Senator Gianpiero D’Alia introduced the measure after the 
Italian press, including the country’s biggest newspaper Corriere della 
Sera, reported that there were fan groups on Facebook for convicted 
Corleone-born mafia bosses Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, who 
have been convicted of dozens of homicides and are serving multiple life 
prison sentences.
“We take content that incites violence very seriously and we will work 
quickly to remove it,” Frost said. “For every piece of controversial 
content posted to Facebook there are literally thousands of positive 
interactions fostering communication, fellowship, and commerce.”
Sainthood for a Murderer
While a fan group invoking “sainthood” for Provenzano -- with 433 
members -- was still posted today, Facebook also has a group hailing as 
heroes Palermo prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who 
were assassinated on the orders of Riina after successfully prosecuting 
hundreds of mobsters. That group has 369,463 fans.
The aim isn’t to block sites like Facebook or YouTube totally if they 
contain criminal content, D’Alia said yesterday in an interview. 
Instead, the law is intended to force them to remove individual pages or 
groups, the senator said. The language of the bill itself doesn’t 
distinguish between blacking out pages or entire Web sites.
The legislation is flawed because Internet providers aren’t able to 
eliminate single elements from Web sites, Marco Pancini, European Public 
Policy Counsel for Google Inc., which owns YouTube, said yesterday in an 
interview. That will lead to the blocking of entire platforms if the law 
is passed, Pancini said.
Mediaset, YouTube
[Oops! Chi l'avrebbe mai detto? In tutta la vicenda, pare ci sia la 
zampetta di un nano...]
YouTube has the ability to eliminate potentially criminal or offensive 
material, Pancini said, adding that laws regulating criminal content in 
Italy already exist. An April 2003 law says that material must be 
removed immediately once a Web site is informed of illicit material in 
its domain.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose allies in the Senate 
helped pass the measure, owns Mediaset SpA, the country’s largest 
private broadcaster. Mediaset in July said it sued YouTube and Google 
for illegally distributing the television company’s content, seeking “at 
least” 500 million euros in damages.
Berlusconi has campaigned every weekend for the last month for his 
candidate, Ugo Cappellacci, against rival Renato Soru in the elections 
for governor of the island of Sardinia, which are scheduled to be held 
on Feb. 15 and 16. Soru is the founder and owner of 17.7 percent -- 
through a blind trust -- of Internet- service provider Tiscali.
The Internet legislation was inserted as an amendment to a bill aimed at 
cracking down on crime that the Senate passed on Feb. 5. The measure 
still must pass in the Chamber of Deputies without being changed to 
become law.
To contact the reporter on this story: Steve Scherer in Rome at 
sch...@bloomberg.net
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 Facebook Says Italy’s Plan to Block Web Content Goes Too Far
Sai che forse non mi dispiace?
Questa potrebbe essere la volta che vanno a farsi del male loro.
Togliere FB e YT? Tagliare linee? Cancellare account?
Se tanto mi da tanto, o mettono 300.000 soldati di guardia nelle città,
o non ci arrivano vivi agli aerei con cui tenteranno di fuggire...
Oltretutto la rete è architetturalmente bypassabile in un milione di
modi, per cui si formerebbe una sottorete "clandestina" ma
accessibilissima e di fatto incontrollabile.
Oppure, meno violentemente, al prossimo giro non prenderanno nemmeno i
voti dalle loro mamme.
-- 
Roberto Rosoni


dalle loro mamme non prendono voti comunque, per via del Ddl Carfagna. 

Probabilmente perché proprio non aveva niente di meglio da fare, Jack
Irons, il Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:34:47 +0100, ha scritto in 
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Ok, ma io intendevo che se vanno a toccare delle cose che oltre che
utili sono pure modaiole, i sig.ri politici non prenderanno manco i voti
delle loro (dei politici) mamme. ;-)
-- 
Roberto Rosoni

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
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mi sa che la mia battuta non č stata compresa.. 

 mi sa che la mia battuta non è stata compresa.. 
OOOOOOOPS! :-)
-- 
Roberto Rosoni