[governance] Article: "Italy moves to place controls on Internet content"

[Roland Perry]

In message <41001449A78D4CBAB25418DC6FC72A22 at GINGERLAPTOP>, at 19:20:46 
on Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> writes
>Is there any precedent

What? For a country trying to restrict content... Look up "France" and 
"auctions of Nazi memorabilia" for an early example.

More recently, in the last month the UK government has in effect caused 
eBay to ban the sale of knives (to add to a very long list of things).
-- 
Roland Perry
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