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October 6, 2011 01:21 pm GMT

Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down In Protest Of Proposed Law

wikiIn the true spirit of online activism, the entire Italian Wikipedia website has voluntarily taken itself down in order to protest a bill being proposed to Parliament. The law ("DDL intercettazioni," roughly translated as Wiretapping Act) would require every website to publish within 48 hours a correction or comment relating to any content an applicant has deemed "detrimental to their image," as they put it. If that sounds vague, broad, and onerous, that's because it is.If this law were passed, Wikipedia and other websites would have to post unedited and unsolicited "corrections" to any content deemed objectionable by any person. This content would have to be displayed without any review of the offending content or the "correction." It doesn't take an expert to see that this law is contrary to the principles of truth and openness.

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