Straight from:

http://www.antoniodipietro.com/en/2007/10/dont_gag_the_internet.html#comments

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Don’t Gag the Internet

I am receiving so many emails and comments criticizing the draft bill ”New discipline for publishing and delegating to the Government for the release of a unified text about the reorganisation of legislation in the publishing sector”.
To be clear: the draft law was not discussed in the meeting of the Council of Ministers on 12 October because it was presented as a normal routine measure.
I read the text today for the first time and my opinion is that it should be blocked immediately. This draft law would in fact put a cloak over the Internet in Italy and would probably bring about its ending.
It’s a liberty-killing law and it is against the bloggers who each day publish articles that are never reported by newspapers and the TV.
I am part of the government and I accept my responsibility for not having intercepted the draft law, but as far as I am concerned this law will never pass, even at the cost of raising the issue of the support given by Italia dei Valori to the Government.

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Any comments or suggestions?

We hope that next time they will FIRST read and THEN (eventually) sign...