[r] Italy referendum (illegal campaigning)

[Risottia]

Regardless, No seems the likely outcome and every Italian needs to get out to vote and vote No

As I already explained in the same thread, since ballot offices are still open, campaigning might lead to NS getting banned in Italy for hosting political campaigning during the campaigning ban. I don't want to be unable to reach NS anymore.

[The Three Towers]

Nobody is going to ban NS
Facebook/Twitter/any social network would have been banned ages ago if this rule existed/was actually applied

[Frisbeeteria]

Addressed.

I'm not sure that Italian campaigning laws can apply to foreign nationals on a foreign-hosted website. US campaigning laws refer to physical distance from polling places, and have little or no mention of electronic devices. If you want to link me to relevant Italian laws that actually acknowledge the Internet, I'm sure we would be interested in how that might impact NS.

[Risottia]

Addressed.

I'm not sure that Italian campaigning laws can apply to foreign nationals on a foreign-hosted website. US campaigning laws refer to physical distance from polling places, and have little or no mention of electronic devices. If you want to link me to relevant Italian laws that actually acknowledge the Internet, I'm sure we would be interested in how that might impact NS.

This is a pamphled by an Italian Region about the electoral silence and similar regulations.


http://autonomielocali.regione.fvg.it/a ... torale.pdf

See page 17:
Nei giorni della votazione sono comunque vietati:
...
b) la diffusione di sondaggi sull’esito delle elezioni e sugli orientamenti politici degli elettori

During election days it is anyway forbidden:
...
b) to publish polls about election outcomes and about the political preferences of electors

https://www.agcom.it/documents/10179/53 ... ersion=1.0
Italian Information Authority - regulation about opinion polls over the internet

https://www.agcom.it/documents/10179/12 ... ersion=1.1
Italian Information Authority - deliberation against an Italian newspaper that violated the rules about publishing opinion polls


An IP ban would be an extreme measure, but not entirely unheard of.

[Risottia]

Now calling a mod is a "personal attack".

The fact that he had to have a mod use a personal attack on me just goes to show the lengths these people are going to go to once they get control of the internet though.

[Frisbeeteria]

b) to publish polls about election outcomes and about the political preferences of electors

I'm not seeing an individual publishing their opinion as meeting the criteria for "polls" or "electors". It doesn't seem to violate the spirit or the letter of the Italian law (he said, speaking as a non-lawyer totally unfamiliar with Italian law).

Now calling a mod is a "personal attack".

I saw that. Not particularly worried about it.

[Tinhampton]

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=30558061#p30558061
And some more - but not from ChicagoBoys.

[Frisbeeteria]

And some more - but not from ChicagoBoys.

I'm not going to warn people for giving their opinion on this opinion-based forum. See my post directly above yours.