The Italian SOPA tastes of Lega Nord |
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 Right when the US Congress and Senate seem more than ready to discard the (in)famous SOPA and PIPA Acts, in Italy there's someone trying to create a similar law, in order to protect copyrighted material from online piracy - by any means necessary, even those against freedom of information and free speech.
The Italian SOPA is a strong recipe - and there's no wonder in that, since it comes from congressman Giovanni Fava, member of the nationalist party Lega Nord: an entity based on a solid regional base (Northern regions of Italy, mainly), with a political program revolving around the protection of local economy against every other factor (from immigration to taxes and so on).
Fava, indeed, wrote two amendments to the Italian law on electronic commerce and managed to have them included in the main text: basically, if the law is approved by the Parliament, any subject will be entitled to ask Internet operators to remove copyrighted content from the sites they're hosting or aggregating. The most criticized part of the rule is that no authority (judge, agency or other official entity) will be necessary: anyone, simply with an email, will be able to ask for a content to be removed.
The whole Italian Web went ballistic as soon as the news broke. And after the starting puzzlement of most of the political parties and their congressmen (who didn't seem to have understood the real meaning of those amendments at first), a common front against Fava's text was born. And it's one of the most compact teams Italian Parliament has seen in years: all parties seem united and determined to delete Fava's contribution to the law. All parties bar one: the Lega Nord.
Obviously the text is doomed, since the Lega Nord won't be able to support it with enough votes during the discussion in Parliament, on January, 31. But the most confusing - if not frightening - element is that such a freedom-killing norm was being slipped in a law without the major political parties being aware.
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| TAG: Copyright, Freedom, Giovanni Fava, Internet, Italy, LAw, Lega Nord, online piracy, PIPA, SOPA |
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