Silvio Berlusconi plans to "regulate the Internet"

January 1, 2009 Italy will take the presidency in the organization of the "G8" - "Big Eight". Silvio Berlusconi, the current Prime Minister of Italy and her representative in the aforementioned organization, is going to make a proposal on the “regulation of the Internet” for consideration by all countries participating in the forum.

Dear Prime Minister didn’t say what he understands by the term “Internet regulation”, but there is one positive point in all this not yet started cotovasia: Silvio Berlusconi is one of the few Italian media magnates who owns large national mass media resources. , which means that he should not be hearsay to be familiar with the network realities.
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Even in spite of the fact that except for one, sufficiently unsubstantiated statement, not a single step has been taken towards the practical implementation of the “regulation” - the dust has already risen almost to heaven. Italian bloggers express their protest only to the “regulation” initiative, saying that they will hang banners on their websites / blogs / resources in protest. And now, many say that if Berlusconi keeps his words and tries to put some points on the G-8, he cannot avoid criticism and, most likely, cannot withstand it - earlier this year he lost the lawsuit against The Economist. , Who wrote that he was "not the right person to rule Italy."

However, the current state of affairs in industrialized countries makes us think that such “regulatory” measures can still be introduced by the government of each country even despite the “market on the Internet.” The UK has already introduced new bills and restored some of the old ones in order to fight pornography and extremism, Australia is still busy tweaking its “great firewall” and it’s not a fact that in Russia something like that will not appear, approved in interethnic level

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