Il Fatto Quotidiano on line
Il Fatto defends freedom of information and freedom of the press by widespread advertising of its campaign to scupper the new “gagging” law as soon as it is passed by creating widespread support through social networking. Journalists will risk prison sentences if they publish transcripts of (legally obtained) wiretapped phonecalls contained in trial documents. Editors will be heavily fined. Going online is the first step in their defence. Watch this space!
Opposition Party IDV (Italia dei Valore – lit. Italy of Values) is getting ready to defend freedom of speech in Italy by providing space for the publication of legal and publicly available wiretapped conversions which may no longer published in Italy once the Gag-a Bill becomes law.The “forbidden” conversations will be made available by lawyers.
Furthermore, IDV MPs and senators will read exerpts of public interest (without violating anyone’s privacy) in Parliament. This means that they will have to be included in the transcription of parliamentary debates,. and can thus be published. They will be immediately reported on the IDV website, thus offering an information service which is fundamental and sanctioned by the constitution. The help of bloggers everywhere, the free-thinkers of the web, will be enlisted to publicize this campaign of civil disobedience. IDV Belgium.
We are all going gag-a with the new anti-wire-tapping law. But has anyone actually read what the Bill says? Has anyone tranbslated the text into English?