> I think these 'privacy concerns' are just a cheap way to use a disabled person to garner sympathy for the crusade against big bad google that is offering Italian consumers alternative video content that does not come from 'Papi'.
Exactly. The main concerns of the government right now about internet are YouTube and Facebook, because they are the main channels on which news spread.
Mediaset, the Berlusconi Company owning all his televisions also sued Google for copyright of content published on YouTube. Every television in the world is working with Google to remove this content or to profit from it. Berlusconi is the only one who attacks it to take it down.
This week there has also been a similar case on Facebook, for a stupid group on down children. The government is trying every now and then to find excuses to pass laws against internet freedom.
> Berlusconi ought to be the one in the docket. But then he'll just pass another law that exempts him...
The saddest thing about this is that it is true. He already passed 19 laws just to avoid jail, and he is about to pass another two...
Exactly. The main concerns of the government right now about internet are YouTube and Facebook, because they are the main channels on which news spread.
Mediaset, the Berlusconi Company owning all his televisions also sued Google for copyright of content published on YouTube. Every television in the world is working with Google to remove this content or to profit from it. Berlusconi is the only one who attacks it to take it down.
This week there has also been a similar case on Facebook, for a stupid group on down children. The government is trying every now and then to find excuses to pass laws against internet freedom.
> Berlusconi ought to be the one in the docket. But then he'll just pass another law that exempts him...
The saddest thing about this is that it is true. He already passed 19 laws just to avoid jail, and he is about to pass another two...