Italy contemplates Web restrictions after Berlusconi attack
Found on PC World on Thursday, 17 December 2009
The Italian government has proposed introducing new restrictions on the Internet after a Facebook fan page for the man who allegedly attacked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday drew almost 100,000 users in under 48 hours.
Members of his own party, however, were quick to warn against any curtailment of Internet freedom, suggesting that current laws already provide sufficient protection against the criminal use of the Web.
Berlusconi controls already most media in Italy, so it's not much of an surprise that he would like to extent this control over the Internet; or at least the italian part.