Italy on the verge of the stupidest censorship law in European history
http://boingboing.net/2016/09/18/italy-on-the-verge-of-the-stup.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
Under the proposed law, the "site manager" of Italian media,
including bloggers, newspapers and social networks would be
obliged to censor "mockery" based on "the personal and social
condition" of the victim -- that is, anything the recipient
felt was personally insulting. The penalty for failing to take
action is a fine of EUR100,000. Truthfulness is not a defense
in suits under this law -- the standard is personal insult,
not falsehood. Let's start with what this won't do: it won't
stop bullying, harassment or revenge porn in Italy. The
majority of services on which Italians express themselves are
not based in Italy, and those with Italian sales-offices, etc,
can and will simply move offices rather than face a EUR100,000
fine every time someone insults someone else online. But what
it will do is create a tool for easy censorship without due
process or penalty for misuse. The standard proposed in the
bill is merely that the person on the receiving end of the
argument feel aggrieved. Think of the abuse of copyright
takedowns: online hosts already receive millions of these,
more than they could possibly evaluate, and so we have a
robo-takedown regime that lets the rich and powerful routinely
remove material that puts them in an unflattering light.
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Idiots.
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