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Date: 1998-07-13
.it: Kommune Rom dreht Avantguarde/netzwerk ab-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- .it: Kommune Rom dreht Künstlernetzwerk ab $& schneidet sich ins eigene Fleisch. Die "sperimentali" waren bis dato der weitaus populärste Teil des römischen Stadtinformationssystems. Dort zählen offenbar noch keine Pageviews oder Visits, sondern es regiert noch die gute alte Politik. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- The city council member responsible of Civic networks has closed the Civic network in Rome. Mariella Gramaglia, responsible of Civic networks, closed by authority and without warning all internet spaces that had been given in the past years to citizens and associations related to Experimental Projects. This event took place only a few days after the seizure of the Islands in the Net server which abruptly stopped all activities of many nonprofit associations. In spite of two questions in Parliament and the unanimous judgment of netizens about the "foolishness" of the action, once again a whole web site (which contained information in no way related to the "offensive" page) was taken down in order to just censor one page (a deplorable action by itself). The thoughtless action damages the work of all people and groups who have contributed their time for free and who have been the true force of civic net. It can not go unnoticed that with this action Mariella Gramaglia simply destroyed the Civic network. Actually, Experimental Projects was the most popular section of the Civic network in Rome, the only spot of free expression for roman associations and citizens. At the moment, after the thoughtless action, only the institutional web site of the Rome administration remains online. Mrs. Gramaglia does not seem to understand that an institutional site is not a civic network. Besides, the reason of the action is laughable: priest Don Fortunato Noto, who started an association called Telefono Arcobaleno (Rainbow Telephone) in Avola (Sicily) fighting pedophilia in sometimes worrying ways (books pyre, press campaignes against toys manufactures and tv shows) and producing often more hysteria than quiet care, decided to file a charge against the city administration over a page stored on the server. The "indicted" page is a quote of a literary piece published on a nationally distributed magazine purchasable in every bookstore. This is equivalent to censoring literary criticism that quotes "unseemly" works and closing all libraries and bookstores. The quote is part of a project named "Feminine and science fiction: writing patterns" , which is also a graduation thesis successfully upholded at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". The web page was part of one of the FRD (Roman Digital Forum) active projects, an area arranged by and for artists and knowledge workers also provided with a wide network of international contacts. The work of dozens of associations and citizens (included an association of the Carabinieri police force and one related to firemen) has been disregarded and the commitments taken by the councillor department betrayed. From that we infer the unreliable behaviour of the city council, which at first offers free expression spaces to its citizens and then it removes them without warning. We only need to know that. Summarizing: - the city administration interrupted open-ended time a public service betraying its commitments with roman citizens - the reason behind this action appears laughable from a legal point of view and appears as an autocratic act of a city officer who has decided to change without warning the open policy of the previous administration, which was more respectful of the right to expression of the citizens. - after months in her position, Mrs. Gramaglia still does not seem to understand the workings and the concepts of the internet and civic networks (this is easily understood by her statements to the press) We therefore demand the immediate reopening of all services of the roman civic network and a meeting with Mrs. Gramaglia and all associations and citizens that participate in the network, in order to calmly but seriously evaluate the competencies that are needed to administrate the network. The participants of Foro Romano Digitale Associazione culturale Edu.Co. Associazione culturale Matrix Associazione culturale Virtual Mondo Associazione Culturale IperAudio Associazione Oikos Simultaneita' Complesso per/forma Sciattoproduzie Luther Blisset J.W.L. Paardekooper -- Maurizio Mazzoneschi http://www.comune.roma.it/COMUNE/sperimentali/matrix relayed by bbrace@ncal.verio.com via http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-07-13 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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