2010/01/23

My Way News - Berlusconi moves to impose Internet regulation
My Way News reports: "Going beyond other European countries, the premier's government has drafted a decree that would mandate the vetting of videos for pornographic or violent content uploaded by users onto such sites as YouTube, owned by Google, and the France-based Dailymotion, as well as blogs and online newsmedia."

Comment: This is extraordinary, coming only days after U.S. Secretary of State Clinton encouraged China to become more open and lessen internet censorship, one of the core countries of Western Europe is going in the other direction. Rule by decree? Have the fascists returned to Rome?

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