Censorship in Italy

Censorship in Italy

In Italy censorship is appllied only from strong political powers and against situation that can contrast it.

Italy is one of the European member with lowest level of press freedom [ [http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=251&year=2006] FreedomHouse Map] .

Censorship is applyed in television such as in press for several reason.

One of most important example of censorship in Italy was the ban of one episode of tv show Le Iene showing use of drugs into the Italian Parliament [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/oct/11/italy.broadcasting Italian condamned tv show] ]

Censorship from Italian govern not only use legal or is in contrast with international conventions or UE laws.

Italy is not categorized by ONI and is not on RSF's internet enemy list. Italy put embargo on foreign bookmakers over the Internet (in contrast with UE market's rules) by mandating certain edits to DNS host files of Italian ISPs. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20070409094225/http://www.ascendgaming.com/IGWB/magazine_current/0306IGWBCoverLead.htm Italy's ban on foreign operators opens a new front in Europe's battle for a 'common market' for gambling] ] [ [http://www.threadwatch.org/node/5767 I Know This Is A Trite Title, But ... It's Not Just China] (strong language)] . Italy is also blocking access to websites containing child pornography. [ [http://punto-informatico.it/2031873/PI/Commenti/sed-lex-quando-ministro-viola-legge.aspx Sed Lex/Quando il Ministro viola la legge] (Italian)] From August 2008, Italy is blocking also The Pirate Bay website [ [http://www.repubblica.it/2007/09/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/musica-digitale/pirate-bay/pirate-bay.html "Sequestro preventivo" del giudice: così l'Italia blocca The Pirate Bay] (Italian)] [ [http://thepiratebay.org/blog/123 Fascist state censors Pirate Bay] (strong language)] , basing this censorship on a law on electronic commerce and it's the absolutely first in Italy making a block not only for the present, but also for the future [ [http://www.alongo.it/?p=664 Il blocco di Pirate Bay: confermato anche su alias e ip] (Italian)] . On this last block, a consumer-association, Altroconsumo, have announced reappeal.

Movie or cartoon are often modified or cut on national tv channels such as Mediaset or RAI.

List of censored films

*Jan Henrik Stahlberg, "Bye bye Berlusconi" (comic movie 2006 (Germany))

See also

*Le Iene
*Reporters Without Borders
*Moige
*Censorship

References

External links

* [http://edri.blogactiv.eu/2008/09/26/there-is-no-censorship-in-italy-but/ There is no censorship in Italy, but...] Some example of Italian censorship.
* [http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepiratebay.org/blog/123 The pirate bay protest against Italian illegal censorship] Linked with anonymouse (the only way to see it from Italian internet account)


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