[Infowarrior] - Italy proposes a Ministry of Blogging with mandatory blog-licensing

[Richard Forno]

Italy proposes a Ministry of Blogging with mandatory blog-licensing
Posted by Cory Doctorow, October 22, 2007 3:36 AM | permalink
Nick sez, "Famous Italian anti-government campaigner and blogger Beppe
Grillo describes a proposed new Italian law which would force all bloggers
to register, pay tax and be regulated by a government body."

    Ricardo Franco Levi, Prodi¹s right hand man , undersecretary to the
President of the Council, has written the text to put a stopper in the mouth
of the Internet. The draft law was approved by the Council of Ministers on
12 October. No Minister dissociated themselves from it. On gagging
information, very quietly, these are all in agreement.

    The Levi-Prodi law lays out that anyone with a blog or a website has to
register it with the ROC, a register of the Communications Authority,
produce certificates, pay a tax, even if they provide information without
any intention to make money.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/22/italy-proposes-a-min.html