QUOTE(SB_Johnny @ Tue 4th October 2011, 3:29pm)
QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Tue 4th October 2011, 5:17pm)
Well 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?
Is the Italian WP as pop culture oriented as the English one?
Don't know but free culture wikis breed obsessive fanboy stuff by their very nature. If not those exact types then something else. We could look at a dozen random pages and check but...well you know.