{"id":27552,"date":"2011-10-06T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27552"},"modified":"2011-10-06T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:38:57","slug":"italy-wikipedia-shuts-down-italian-language-edition-to-protest-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27552","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Wikipedia shuts down Italian language edition to protest new law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"PC World - Wikipedia hides Italian language page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/241149\/wikipedia_hides_italian_language_edition_to_protest_new_law.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia have shut down<\/a>\u00a0their <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Italy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Italy\" target=\"_blank\">Italian<\/a> language page in protest against a wiretapping act being proposed to the country&#8217;s parliament. The proposed law\u00a0would require websites to publish within 48 hours a correction or comment relating to any content an applicant has deemed\u00a0<a title=\"TechCrunch - Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down In Protest Of Proposed Law \" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/10\/06\/italian-wikipedia-shuts-down-in-protest-of-proposed-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cdetrimental to their image,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0or risk being fined \u20ac12,000.\u00a0In a <a title=\"Wikipedia - Italian page\" href=\"http:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011\/en\" target=\"_blank\">message posted<\/a>\u00a0on the site on Wednesday, Wikipedia said the page was currently just hidden, but explained there was a risk they would soon be forced to delete it. The proposed rule has already received <a title=\"The Guardian - Italy's bloggers to protest over 'fascist' right to reply bill \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/sep\/27\/italy-bloggers-protest-right-reply-bill\" target=\"_blank\">substantial criticism<\/a> as a tool that will damage free expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia have shut down\u00a0their Italian language page in protest against a wiretapping act being proposed to the country&#8217;s parliament. The proposed law\u00a0would require websites to publish within 48 hours a correction or comment relating to any content an applicant has deemed\u00a0\u201cdetrimental to their image,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0or risk being fined \u20ac12,000.\u00a0In a message posted\u00a0on the site on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7388,727,304,3878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27579,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions\/27579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}