QUOTE(Adrignola @ Tue 4th October 2011, 2:35pm)
The users of the Italian Wikipedia have blocked all read and write access to
http://it.wikipedia.org in protest of a possible law that is being discussed in the Italian Parliament.
News:
http://www.businessinsider.com/italy-wikip...tapping-2011-10Foundation-l thread:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/252490The page all users are redirected to (English version):
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Com...ottobre_2011/enWhile I mourn this setback of the Italian people's free speech rights I will be interested to see if what happens as the nation sees it can get by just fine without Wikipedia. Wikipedians are always overestimation their own importance. This fight will be carried out by the institutions (the press media universities) that represent politically significant speech. The free culture kiddies will back down as soon as they start jonesing to edit video game and cartoon articles.
Remember the "Free the DVD Hashcode" incident?