When we say that the Internet represents the democracy of the immediate future, while the traditional means of transmitting knowledge to be the bulwark of tyranny, I think there is something fundamentally true, but too much emphasis and illusion. In the greek-roman civilization knowledge was transmitted in private schools , where only the wealthy could send their children. Similarly, in medieval Europe, where the schools, moreover, were handled by ecclesiastical institutions.
was only with the advent of industrial civilization, based on state forms of democracy, the governments of the United States and Europe began to establish free schools course of primary and higher education.
The public library was the place of knowledge par excellence. Until a few years ago a scholar who wanted to write an article or essay documented and did not have a rich library was bound to make use of public libraries. Obviously, if living in the province had to forgo it, because the towns and villages were - and some still are - devoid of organic libraries.
The Internet has been a real cultural revolution because it allowed the working classes and even relegated in the provinces, to find free access to that knowledge that had hitherto held in libraries and archives. In the time of clicking the mouse you can now know the text of any law of the present and the past, the historical flow of different civilizations, in real time to know the facts of politics and news, see a myriad Texts of classical and modern literature, nonfiction or art, browse photos and even video bizarre, perform a physical reconnaissance on a given territory, and many other things. In short, although the Internet is not possible to access the entire human knowledge - but even the best stocked libraries allow it - and read a prepared mind can use it to prepare articles and essays, accompanied by references, in recent years if not impossible to write lived in a certain environment.
Internet sites are the equivalent information brochure, often real newspapers and magazines, with the power of multimedia that the printed word can not offer.
Unlike the print publication of a site has a lower cost because they must support the costs of printing and distribution. All the newspapers printed paper you are equipped with their sites, probably within a few years become the predominant means of communication.
as an offshoot of the sites were created blogs, a kind of megaphone staff, with the potential to reach a multitude of users. Citizens have begun to wisely use the blog, but did not exercise the profession of journalist, broke the barriers of an information and a culture within the walls of compressed media potentates, held and manipulated by economic and political powers. Beppe Grillo Antonio Di Pietro and were the first to understand and to use this form to the information system tattered and conformism. A multitude of bloggers, including on myself, have flooded the Internet, each bringing its contribution to a more free and truthful information.
Old Marple of Italian politics have understood, albeit a little late, and are trying to stem the flood. E 'examination of the Cultural Committee of the Chamber of Deputies a bill on the legislative reorganization publishing. Riccardo Franco Levi, a member of PD, proposes to subscribe to the ROC (register of communications operators) as the initial condition for the publication of newspapers and sites having public, marked in an entrepreneurial manner, and extension of the crime in the press. (art. 5-8).
For sites amateur blogger and independent everything has two major limitations. The first limitation means that the manager of the site and blog, which has a little advertising for support, if not joined the ROC is denounced for the crime of clandestine press. The second limitation, as a result of the first, means that the registration to the ROC becomes a certification of the editorial product, which, as such, falls within the sphere of press offenses. It follows that the controller or the blog site, which obviously has powerful to protect him, for fear of retaliation fines and imprisonment, he begins to obsessively pursue the complaint. In a climate of fear and censorship sites and blogs will begin to close one by one. Others who obstinately will remain open, closed strong under the weight of convictions and fines, perhaps because "they have stepped on their feet" to local politicians.
It 'important to exert public pressure to change the articles in question, to enable bloggers and sites that are maintained with a minimum of publicity, above which begins the editorial product. And it frightened the site managers to articles penned by others, so that every citizen should be responsible for their actions and their writings.
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