graziano, thanks for writing and sending this email, internet is becoming a really dangerous... tool...
please, i would be interested in the development of that matter... i have an odd theory about the similarities of spanish and italian states. i supose that in all the states around the world does happen peculiar things related to the huge power of the state... and i hope that we can manage this tool in order to defend ourselves from "it". or "them". if you have the chance, give strong-hearty regards to piero Graziano Milano escribió: > Piero Ricca, is an Italian citizen owning a blog in which he speaks > about politics and justice. A sort of Italian Michael Moore armed with > a video digital camera and his speech. > > On 10th July 2007 the blog of Piero Ricca (www.pieroricca.org) has > been censored. Blocked actually as Italian police changed passwords, > blocked posts on the site, deleted articles; although we can still > leave comments on his last 'legal' articles to express our solidarity > (please do so). > > What happened? Why this blog has been censored? > > Some time ago, Piero met Emilio Fede, a "journalist", director of TG4, > Rete4 News (part of Berlusconi's TV network) and asked him how it is > possible that Rete4 continues to transmit illegally and abusively > using TV frequencies that a final judgement of the Italian > Constitutional Court has assigned to Europa7, a new independent > channel? In response to that question Piero was first given by Mr Fede > a false declaration of his resignation, then was called a "stupid" and > finally received a spit. When Piero tried to respond to those > provocations, he got threatened both physically and by legal actions > (video clip at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KbGNQwO7es). > > Following that incident Piero's blog was closed on 10th July 2007 by > an order of the Rome Prosecutors' office, a "preventive removal" > notified to Piero by two officers of the "Italian Finance Police > special unit against ICT frauds". The order was the result of a legal > action for defamation presented by Mr Fede against Piero following the > above incident. With the same measure the Police deleted one of > Piero's posts relating to the Mr Fede's incident and the related > comments. For technical reasons, they were unable to remove the video > from YouTube. > > So a "pirate TV" owned by a former Italian Prime Minister can continue > to broadcast illegally for years, but if a citizen demands some > explanations his blog gets banned from the internet. Dangerous idea of > Justice in a western democracy: strong with the common citizen, weak > with the powerful. > > Now Piero is thinking to move his blog outside Italy in order to avoid > censorship in the future. The website Qui Milano Libera > (www.quimilanolibera.net) has been hosting Piero's voice while his > blog is blocked and every blog in Italy is echoing his story. One > thing is for sure no one will manage to remove Piero's freedom of > speech or ours for that matter. > > MrG > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
