Ci sono due documenti del governo USA che a prima vista appaiono incoerenti
La International Strategy for Cyberspace recita:
"Focus cybercrime laws on combating illegal activities, not restricting access to the Internet. Criminal behavior in cyberspace should be met with effective law enforcement, not policies that restrict legitimate access to or content on the Internet.
To advance this goal, the United States Government works on a bilateral and multilateral basis to ensure that countries recognize that online crimes should be approached by focusing on preventing crime and catching and punishing offenders, rather than by broadly limiting access to the Internet, as a broad limitation of access would affect innocent Internet users as well.
As the United States and our partners engage in dialogue and help build capacity among law enforcement organizations worldwide, we will integrate this approach, uniting protection of privacy, fundamental freedoms, and innovation with collaboration to combat crimes in cyberspace."
E il documento 2011 Special 301 Report recita
Italy remains on the Watch List with an Out-of-Cycle review to be conducted this year. Italy continued to make progress in improving its IPR protection and enforcement in 2010, including by increased cooperation among law enforcement officials and improved enforcement actions against certain types of IPR violations. The United States remains concerned that, overall enforcement against copyright piracy continues to be inadequate and that piracy over the Internet continues to grow, severely damaging the legitimate market for distribution of copyrighted works.
The United States welcomes recent efforts to address piracy over the Internet, and looks forward to measures to help ameliorate this problem.
Specifically, proposed regulations by the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) could provide rights holders with an avenue to curb IPR violations online in an effective manner. The United States encourages Italy to ensure that the AGCOM regulations are swiftly promulgated and implemented, that these regulations create an effective mechanism against copyright piracy over the Internet, and that they address all types of piracy that takes place online.
The United States also encourages Italy to address other IPR issues, including a troubling Data Protection Agency ruling prohibiting the monitoring of peer-to-peer networks.
While rights holders report good efforts by the Finance Police and the Customs Police, few cases reach final sentencing and courts still fail to impose deterrent level sentences. The United States will continue to work with Italy to address these and other matters.
confesso di essere un po' "puzzled", quando si dice difendere la privacy e i diritti fondamentali, "ma anche" monitorare il traffico P2P... (la crescita della pirateria oggi non si svolge sul P2P, ma su HTTP. come la mettiamo ? controlliamo anche il traffico delle webmail ?)
non mi pare invece ci sia incoerenza nella posizione USA tra non tagliare l'accesso a internet degli utenti ed implementare le proposte di AGCOM (che prevedono la rimozione dei contenuti e il blocco dei siti).
il problema di questo secondo punto sono le misure di garanzia per chi pubblica informazioni, il fatto che una decisione (che può essere borderline con la censura) viene presa da una autorita' amministrativa con una procedura non propriamente rispettosa delle garanzie previste per i normali processi.