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

[Elena Pavan]

Indeed,

Bill literally stole my words
 this news is not that new either. we were in hyderabad first time such an
issue was raised by my government (totally overlooking the IGF... but maybe
even not knowing that much about the IGF..). despite what echoes outside
italy you have to consider that this "project" is part of berlusconi's & Co.
lrger "project" to slowly move towards a -how can i define it without
sounding drastic?- totalitarian/unilateral/individual "regime" (i guess it
is more drastic than what i wanted but sounds like the truth).
he is not aware of implications of this statements and i believe
preoccupations expressed abroad and by all of you should be seized down  (if
this can ever be a re-sizing) to the fact that there is a "leader" who
speaks as he does and is potentially dangerous. but, in this specific
regard, only potentially. italian policies on data retention are pretty much
strict and ujust, though but they are comlementary tot he overall limitation
of civil rights in relation to the necessity to guarantee "security". after
all, believe me, where he can do damages within the italian boundaries, he
is already doing. nonetheless, the "worldwide threat" posed by my government
is, in my opinion, more political/ethical than actual. none would follow
berlusconi path... maybe russia, as bill says, but maybe even they are
clever that us...at the end of the day, before coming out of the blue with
such a statement at the next G8 i believe (better, hope) berlusconi will
re-consider considering consequences that such a proposal might have. it is
not convinient, after all, to go down this way and he might realize it
before it is too late. in other words, it is outrageous, but not realistic.
tchuss
elena

2009/3/12 William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>

> And the 2000 summit in Okinawa addressed the global digital divide and
> launched the dot force...
>
> There's lots of forum shopping going on with respect to security
> (broadly/vaguely/problematically defined) and it wouldn't be entirely
> surprising for the G8 to be brought into play for a related statement, but
> it's hard to imagine most member governments getting behind something like
> what the Italian senate is reported to have done.  Maybe Russia...
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Roland Perry <
> roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>
>> In message <6AB963BED20C4F4AA2B2F18EBC7F8543 at GINGERLAPTOP>, at 06:43:48
>> on Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> writes
>>
>>> I was particularly interested in any previous mention by the G8 as a
>>> group
>>> to issue some kind of statement or guideline, as Berlusconi seems to be
>>> suggesting.
>>>
>>
>> They've done specific work on "High Tech Crime" (which is in effect more
>> about retaining traffic data). I'm not aware of anything in the area of
>> Content filtering - but I don't monitor it regularly.
>>
>> --
>> Roland Perry
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