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ITALY: Italian gag law threatens bloggers with €25,000 fines for ‘incorrect' facts

01 July 2010

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Italian gag law threatens bloggers with €25,000 fines for ‘incorrect' facts (euobserver, link):

"Bloggers, podcasters and even anyone who posts updates on social networks such as Facebook all face being slapped with fines of up to €25,000 for publishing incorrect facts, if a bill that journalists' organisations are calling "authoritarian" currently before the Italian parliament is passed."

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