5 Oct
2011
5 Oct
'11
9:25 p.m.
Excerpts from Louigi Verona's message of 2011-10-05 20:22:41 +0200:
No, but they have power to do this only in Italy. If
you ask them, they
would gladly extend this law globally.
The tendency is present in Austria too for example, but it's not that
extreme yet. Since a few years there's a new anti-mafia-law but so far
this was only used to prosecute animal rights activists and student
representatives. It's similar in the sense that it's a potentially
powerful law that can be used for rather arbitrary purposes, but I think
only the police can make use of this. This new Italian thing is 'only'
about information but, as I understand it, can be abused by anyone.