[Advocacy Advisors] Italian Wikipedia community discussing defamation bill

Wed Oct 24 21:38:46 UTC 2012

That banner is live, i believe.
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Philippe Beaudette
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Stephen LaPorte
<slaporte at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Italian Senate is debating the defamation bill that the Italian
> Wikipedia community previously protested. The community is discussing their
> response here:
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Oggi_il_Senato_vota_su_diffamazione_e_diritto_all%27oblio
>
> Here is a Google translation of some proposed banner text:
>
> Dear readers,
>
> once again the independence of Wikipedia is under threat.
>
> In these hours, the Italian Senate is debating a bill on defamation ( DDL n.
> 3491 ) which, if approved, would require each site (including Wikipedia) the
> correction or deletion of your content on simple request those who
> considered damaging to their image or their privacy, and provides for the
> criminal conviction and fines of up to € 100,000 in the case of failure to
> remove. Similar initiatives are not new , but this time their approval seems
> imminent.
>
> Wikipedia recognizes the right to the protection of the reputation of each
> and volunteers that contribute for free already strive daily to ensure it.
> The approval of this standard, however, be obliged to alter the content
> regardless of their veracity . Such a requirement would distort the
> fundamental principles of Wikipedia, would be an unacceptable restriction of
> its autonomy and a grave threat to the activity of its 15 million volunteers
> around the world, who would be inclined to stop dealing with specific topics
> or characters, even only "no problems."
>
> Wikipedia is the largest collective work in the history of the human race in
> 12 years has become part of the habits of millions of Internet users in
> search of a knowledge-neutral, free and above all free. The Italian edition
> has almost a million entries, receiving 16 million visits every day, but
> this rule may obscure them forever.
>
> The Encyclopedia is the heritage of all. We will not allow it disappears.
>
>
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