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Posts Tagged ‘beppe grillo’

No Charges on Guzzanti

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The joke that was the decision to press charges against satirist Sabina Guzzanti - in poorer taste than any of Guzzanti’s ‘vulgar’ jabs at Italy’s ruling classes (Vatican included) - has been shelved by justice minister Angelino Alfano.
The Italian press, which in its own topsy-turvy way seems to take more offence at satirists like Guzzanti [...]

Pinging Pirates - Italian ISP’s redirect PirateBay

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The plot thickens. Weeks ago the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay was pre-emptively blocked by the police division in charge of post and communications here in Italy. With a flick of the switch the site became inaccessible (despite the fact, as journalist Alessandro Longo points out that the Pirate Bay has yet to be [...]