Italy to regulate YouTube as a "TV Station" -- including responsibility for user-uploaded content?
http://bit.ly/gE5he3 (la Repubblica [via Google translate]) We end the year (unless something else noteworthy appears in the next few hours) with this remarkably nutty and dangerous idea. It's hard to imagine a more efficient way to kill user-generated content than with such impractical mandates -- which appears to be exactly what Italy has in mind. A handy way to control information for the furtherance of the government's will, indeed. - - - All the best for 2011 to you and yours! Take care, all. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]) http://www.vortex.com/lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 Co-Founder, PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility): http://www.pfir.org Founder, NNSquad (Network Neutrality Squad): http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, GCTIP (Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance): http://www.gctip.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
