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Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.

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[–] indigojasper@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

in Italian even. incredibly based.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good on Italy. Everyone, not just school children, should be protected from... name-calling 🤦

[–] 133arc585@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Common but disturbing behavior: investigating whether calling out fascism is a problem, but not invesgating whether fascism is a problem.

Punishing people for saying what they see.

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