[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> webzine national censorship in Italy

["clement Thomas - pavu.com" <ctgr@free.fr>]

fight with (S)words !

bisogna inventare nuove parole !
fini les journalistes !

We latin people know that it all ends in songs ...
every body want kung-fu figh-ti-ing !!!!

it is time to forget the avant-garde !
Get ready for the En-gArde !!!

--
pavu.com

Alessandro Ludovico a *crit :

> 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
>
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