And it's English.

i suggest the deletion of this sentence and of all the translations because of this new italian law: http://www.terranews.it/news/20...aglio-e-arrivo (translation: if a politicians considers something on internet as offensive, he obliges the owner of/the website that owns the offensive element to remove it, and, if the element is not removed, give a fine from 7500 to 12500 euros)

correction: the law has still to be approved, but it's better to avoid any problem if it gets approved

If this comment is just a fancy way of saying "Look what fucked up shit is currently going on with the Berlusconi government in Italy (<harsh irony>which was totally unexpected because nobody could foresee that Berlusconi would be a heavily ball-sucking dickhead</harsh irony>)" then: okay.

But if you mean this serious: Tatoeba is not based in Italy. Let them try enforcing that law. Nothing anybody here has to bother about.

i'm qute serious. consider also that in italy they blocked the access to some websites that had torrents (like the pirate bay), so anything is possible

The relevant law for Tatoeba is French law. I don't know how susceptible Sarkozy is for bribing with underage whores but I seriously doubt that France has any legal base to enforce Italian right of reply orders. So nothing we have to worry about.

Wouldn't that be a violation of the right to free speech?

This seems to also affect the Italian Wikipedia:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi...ttobre_2011/en

>Wouldn't that be a violation of the right to free speech?

Perhaps there are other details I don't know about but the main point is not removal of information but a right of reply. If you don't like what somebody says on an internet site, you have a right of reply and the site owner has to present your reply in same size and prominence beside the original version and the site owner has no right to make comments about your reply.

So no violation of free speech, the original speech is still there, just a right to exercise free speech on foreign sites.