Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation...
"Dear reader,
at this time, the Italian language Wikipedia may be no longer able to
continue providing the service that over the years was useful to you,
and that you expected to have right now. As things stand, the page you
want still exists and is only hidden, but the risk is that soon we will
be forced by Law to actually delete it.
Over the past ten years, Wikipedia has become part of the daily habits
of millions of web users looking for a neutral, free-content, and -
above all - independent source of Knowledge. A new, huge multi-lingual
encyclopedia, freely available to all, at any time, and free of charge.
Today, unfortunately, the very pillars on which Wikipedia has been built
- neutrality, freedom, and verifiability of its contents - are likely to
be heavily compromised by paragraph 29 of a law proposal, also known as
"DDL intercettazioni" (Wiretapping Act).
This proposal, which the Italian Parliament is currently debating,
provides, among other things, a requirement to all websites to publish,
within 48 hours of the request and without any comment, a correction of
any content that the applicant deems detrimental to his/her image.
Unfortunately, the law does not require an evaluation of the claim by an
impartial third judge - the opinion of the person allegedly injured is
all that is required, in order to impose such correction to any website.
Hence, anyone who feels offended by any content published on a blog, an
online newspaper and, most likely, even on Wikipedia would have the
right for a statement ("correction") to be shown, unaltered, on the
page, aimed to contradict and disprove the allegedly harmful contents,
regardless of the truthfulness of the information deemed as offensive,
and its sources."
more on the wiki itself, on wikipedia.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011/en
marc
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