Other than Vasco Rossi who closes Unciclopedia for defamation. Here, however, we are dealing with a political and national case: after the revolt of the people of the web yesterday, the Italian edition Wikipedia self-suspends the service in protest against the wiretapping law (“blog-killing law”).
The wiretapping bill under discussion in Parliament, with the already disputed paragraph 29, would oblige all websites to publish, within 48 hours of the request and without any comment, the rectification of any content that the applicant deems harmful to his image.
"Unfortunately - write the Italian managers, in the press release that appears on the fixed page that opens at the Wikipedia address - the assessment of the "harm" of said contents is not left to a third party and impartial judge, but solely to the opinion of the person presumed to be injured". If the decree passed, it would therefore be impossible for any site to continue to enjoy the most loved asset on the Net: freedom of expression.
"The obligation to publish the denials envisaged by paragraph 29 among our contents, without even being able to enter into the merits of the same and regardless of any verification, constitutes for Wikipedia an unacceptable limitation of one's freedom and independence“, is written in communique. "This limitation distorts the principles underlying the free encyclopedia and paralyzes the horizontal mode of access and contribution, effectively putting an end to its existence as we have known it up to now".
