Italy
ONI Blog: Italian Wikipedia Unhidden After Voluntary Takedown
The Wall Street Journal reports that Wikipedia's Italian website has become available again after a three-day takedown by Wikipedia itself. Blocked as a protest against a proposed wiretapping bill taken to the Parliament, the website, the website was restored last Thursday...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: October 7, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
ONI Blog: Italian Agency Presses On With Internet Filtering Powers
Despite protests, the Italian Communications Authority (AgCom) yesterday approved a draft regulation that would give it powers to take down websites and filter the Internet over alleged copyright infringement without prior judicial oversight. The draft will now enter a 60 day period...
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
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ONI Blog: Google Executives on Trial in Italy
According to reports in the New York Times, four Google executives are on trial in Milan for charges of defamation and privacy violation regarding a video posted on Google’s Italian website.
The case pertains to a three-minute cell phone video...
- Posted on 10/Feb/2009; tagged in Italy, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Take-down, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: The Pirate Bay Back Online in Italy!
Good news for The Pirate Bay today: An Italian court has deemed a prior block on the site's torrent tracker is unlawful, and the site is accessible once again.
In August, we blogged that a ban in Italy on The Pirate Bay...
ONI Blog: Italy blocks The Pirate Bay, inadvertantly increasing traffic to the site
On July 14, the International Herald Tribune reported that an Italian judge had ordered all ISPs in that country to filter access to The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular file-sharing sites.
The Pirate Bay, based in Sweden, allows...
