Grande articolo, Ollie. Alcune chicche, da quotare senza esitazione:
If the Italian Government seems unable to adapt to the modern world, the explanation is quite simple. Your country would operate like this too if your grandparents were in charge.
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The law’s impact would turn all bloggers in Italy into potential outlaws. This could be great for their traffic, I realise, but hell on the business aspirations of an Italian web start-up, not to mention any tech company that wants to sell its blog-publishing software in Italy, or open a social network here. In addition to driving out potential tech jobs, the stifling of free speech also can have a dramatic chilling effect on all forms of free expression, the arts and scholarship.
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Each semester, I’d have to get 20 or so students registered with the Ministry of Communications, a bureaucratic nightmare that would no doubt take more than a semester to complete, and would turn a generation of idealistic journalists away from the field forever, perhaps into something more rewarding like the assault rifle lobby. So, instead of teaching aspiring journalists about news reporting by having them do some actual news reporting, we could spend three months doing intro-writing exercises from a textbook.
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Is silencing the youth of this country really the best solution to dealing with a few squeaky wheels?
evabbé...
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