Italian Gag Law Threatens Bloggers With €25,000 Fines for ‘Incorrect’ Facts

‘Bloggers, podcasters and even anyone who posts updates on social networks such as Facebook all face being slapped with fines of up to €25,000 for publishing incorrect facts, if a bill that journalists’ organisations are calling “authoritarian” currently before the Italian parliament is passed.

A provision within the government’s Media and Wiretapping Bill will extend Italy’s “obbligo di rettifica”, or rectification obligation – a law dating back to 1948 that requires newspapers to publish corrections – to the internet and indeed anyone “responsible for information websites”.’

Read more: Italian Gag Law Threatens Bloggers With €25,000 Fines for ‘Incorrect’ Facts

‘Bloggers, podcasters and even anyone who posts updates on social networks such as Facebook all face being slapped with fines of up to €25,000 for publishing incorrect facts, if a bill that journalists’ organisations are calling “authoritarian” currently before the Italian parliament is passed.

A provision within the government’s Media and Wiretapping Bill will extend Italy’s “obbligo di rettifica”, or rectification obligation – a law dating back to 1948 that requires newspapers to publish corrections – to the internet and indeed anyone “responsible for information websites”.’

Read more: Italian Gag Law Threatens Bloggers With €25,000 Fines for ‘Incorrect’ Facts

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July 30th, 2010 | Blog

4 Responses to “Italian Gag Law Threatens Bloggers With €25,000 Fines for ‘Incorrect’ Facts”

  1. pete says:

    Wow! Draconian or what? I’m guessing that as long as you dont go out to delibarately BS people you shouldn’t have a problem.

    Regards
    Pete
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  2. Hi Robin,
    Those Italians! Interesting read.
    Hope you enjoy Venice as much as we do. We prefer to go outside of the peak season and have the place to ourselves – well almost.
    cheers
    dawn
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