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This move is obviously motivated by politics and business. Berlusconi basically runs Italy like a corporation that he owns, and since he controls 90% of Italian
by mixmax 17y ago
This move is obviously motivated by politics and business. Berlusconi basically runs Italy like a corporation that he owns, and since he controls 90% of Italian media his interests don't align with sites such as youtube, Reddit, Digg, etc. that pose a threat to his business. What he's doing is what any (heartless..) savvy businessman would do: Cut out the competition. Of course this is absolutely terrible for Italian democracy and free speech.
It's nothing personal - only business.
- LucaDuval 17y agoIt is also personal. Berlusconi has a huge, and still growing, number of legal problems. He successfully hides them on the media he owns or controls (6 tv channels out of 7). The few newspapers that are not aligned to his policy are read by an handful of people. The only way truthful news about his misbehavior reach the Italian people are social network and similar. So it makes sense to shut them up.
- eagleal 17y agoAnd this could be the Berlusconi response to such claim: "The left wing it's trying to ruin the country by make non-sense claims". If you watch the Italian television, you can see that he appends that sentence on every response.[Disclaimer: I'm not right/center/left/you-name-it winged]