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Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to ‘regulate the internet’
Chris Williams
The Register
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would use his country’s imminent presidency of the G8 group to push for an international agreement to “regulate the internet”.
Speaking to Italian postal workers, Reuters reports Berlusconi said: “The G8 has as its task the regulation of financial markets… I think the next G8 can bring to the table a proposal for a regulation of the internet.”
Italy’s G8 presidency begins on January 1. The role is taken by each of the group’s members in rotation. The holder country is responsible for organising and hosting the G8’s meetings and setting the agenda. Italy’s last G8 presidency in 2001, also under Berlusconi, was marred by riots at the annual meeting in Genoa.
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Berlusconi didn’t explain what he meant by “regulate the internet”, but the mere mention of it has prompted dismay among Italian commentators. Berlusconi owns swathes of the Italian mass media.
The left-wing newspaper L’Unita wrote: “You can not say that it is not a disturbing proclamation, given that the only countries in the world where there are filters or restrictions against internet are countries ruled by dictatorial regimes: those between China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia.”
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Does he think people are stupid?
If a cattle farmer got into power and said, “We need to regulate lamb, pork and chicken production,” people would laugh.
Low-lives like Berlusconi use their power to protect their own profits. The well-being of the populace is not even a consideration.
Throughout the world criminals run our societies. All we have to do to dissolve their power is to stop using their money. The money is the control mechanism that keeps all of us economically enslaved. When we stop using the currencies that the bankers supply to us, the central banks will dissolve and the politicians they employ will be out of a job.
Don’t fight the system:
Replace it
http://socialviability.com/
December 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
IMO Berlusconi is the guy designated by the NWO to float the idea of regulating the internet. The people’s access to the truth is a thorn in Governments side and they’d like nothing better than to control it more so they decide what disinfo they want you to see and hear.
It’s also self serving because he owns mass media and knows it’s dieing so to control the internet would sway people back to propaganda like newspapers and other mainstream media sources.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
How Dare They!!
December 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
The internet is the great communicator and helps us understand so much.
As real news junkies we can take in what we want without being fed a diet of corporate and politically controlled crap.
The internet frightens them…it hits them in the pocket and they lose power, control and influence.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I thought a better goal would be to tackle the money wasted by EU subsidies and the corruption involved with the illegal dumping of waste in Italy, all exposed through the Internet.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Who’s going to be the first DHS agent to try to put your hands all over me, because I’m going to kill you if you do.
We’re not afraid of you anymore. Go ahead and target me–leave the civilians alone.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
The only way it seems to solve problems such as this, is to get rid of the source of the problem by whatever means. Cause & Effect - We are all bound by this universal law.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Over my dead body.
December 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I say it’s time for people to start spreading news via word of mouth. Or else we’re all fucked
December 4th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I’m happy with the internet the way it is. Why would we let corrupt governments mess with it?
Let me guess:
- Taxing internet profits at the highest level available.
- Any site protesting the government must get a license first.
- Big corporations get priority over bandwidth.
- E-mails filtered through government selected words: Example: “protest”
- Charging extra internet fees for non corporate sites.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Give me Internet, or give me death!
December 4th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Berlusconi is nothing more than a fascist mobster, who gained his wealth through corruption, fraud and deceit. Unfortunately, Italians that voted him into office - again! - think he is preserving Italy’s heritage, which I suppose he is in a way, if you consider all that Mussolini did for the country.
Internet 2 is on its way for the self-proclaimed elite to rule and regulate - we need to protect Internet 1 for the angelic humankind as we fight the revolution. We will overcome!!
December 4th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Kill that fascist burscoloni like franco we were fighting as anarchsts in spain CNT/FAI against Franco. Boo. internet! Prawn! Free speech!
December 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
SOCIAL VIABILITY
WHY WOULD YOU ACCEPT FIAT IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR NEW INFLATION PROOF CURRENCY, THAT IS ALL I WANT TO ASK??????????
December 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I’m not saying it can’t be done but the distributive nature of the internet would make it difficult. Watch out for ISP consolidations!
December 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Yes isp consolidation and mac adressing could be used in this type of scenario, only allowing registered mac adresses to function on the internet would serve a a forced regulation service, the internet would first need to verify your physical mac adress on your PC and authenticate it, if it’s not registered no internet sucka…
December 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
maybe they even require desktop and laptop to take registered fingerprint before being allowed to access the net??? that is possible, it is definately doable, they would just need to implement an authentication mechanism
December 5th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Better start digging out those old 56k modems.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Cell phones after the GSM erra all contain beacon tracking microchip, they can locate you in “emergencies” with this lol, makes me laugh
December 5th, 2008 at 7:57 am
I like your attitude artyom. If people didn’t treat the internet like a baby sitter for their kids but instead actually paid some attentiion to what their own kid is doing and tried to protect them it would be much better than having government jerk offs controling our liberty as adults to do what we want . Government is not the answer , neglectful parents are the problem .
December 5th, 2008 at 8:09 am
You want to DO SOMETHING about it? BOYCOTT MONSICKO NOW! Come on brothers and sisters. You know what they are doing. Alex has been telling us this. Now do something:
http://patriotscave.blogspot.com/
December 5th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Pissed in California- The point of tracked “in case of emergencies” is kind of funny, but if a real emergency does happen it isn’t so funny. The ability to triangulate mobile phones is old technology though. The radio transceivers were triangulated during the Great Patriotic War to find partisans in France relaying information to the allies. I assume the methods are same in mobile technology, just using the GSM digital code and the towers which are preposition to triangulate the phone. Now the towers, the phone id code, and the service contract put the user in the bullseye. During that brief war were using the triangulation devices to locate targets for artillery bombardment. Make a phone call and get bombed. CIA wouldn’t think twice to assasinate an “enemy of the state” with a missle that they identified using a mobile phone. Think about that before making a phone call in times of trouble. Yeah… I love when those little booklets with government usage information talks passionately to you about how you are protected and cared for.
revolution solution- That is the way it ought to be, user responsibility and parental responsibility. I am glad you agree. More government equals more problems. This G8 summit seems like the first one I am actually worried about. Filtering and blocking content will only serve interest to companies like CNN and Fox who can create a bogus story and there would be no counter story or arcticle for people to get a balanced opinion. In Russia, they want to block “Hate Sites.” Don’t block them!!!! I don’t go and look at them. I don’t want to see it, but who does? Someone like the skinheads. Track them! Blocking is only disconnecting the police from a good source of information. If my views are flawed, I’d listen to any. So far all the views for filtering have proved illogical for me. Keep active on protecting the internet or your world will shrink to the size of your local community in which you live. =Peace=
December 6th, 2008 at 7:15 am
email trees are a fallback position we can use to get the information out, if it comes to that.
Faxes likewise. this was used in the Soviet Union’s last days, I seem to remember. Before that was samizdat printing operations — often nothing more than smelly blue ditto pages (if you remember those in the US, you’re over forty). But as some have noted above, we will still have cd’s and dvd’s to burn and circulate.
As far as arguments go, the one offered in L’Unità is the strongest: all the countries that do such blocking are outright dictatorships. The number of people in the streets will be large, because the web is virtually universal now, at least in the people I meet. Only elderly people have missed the boat.
We cannot let this happen, but if it does, we have got to find our way over-under-around-and-through, to quote the old Pall Mall ad.
It seems to me, there are a billion holes in such a wall that a lot of network techs will come up with in a trice. The faster we amateurs cotton on to those tricks the sooner the tyranny will throw up its hands in despair and say, “oh,what’s the use?”
December 8th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Internet is already regulated. All digital information is 24/7 tapped by Echelon and local government in the EU. They will not restrict to much as right now they can follow people behavior. For Berlusconi to even mention this is hilarious, but bordering on retardation.
December 13th, 2008 at 10:01 am
With any luck this fat Italian prick will piss off one of the “families” and they’ll whack the fucker. Come on Maffioso do us all a favour.
I’m pissed with this whole fucking NWO thing and it’s time to take the fight to them. Feed them all to the dogs i say and the sooner the better.
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