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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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[–] InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Courts are usually the last vestiges of authoritarian power in democracies, having to rely on the authority of life-long (and politically) appointed supreme court judges after all recourses have been tried and done (which for you may not be many if you don't have a wealth of cash), and they are at their worst when tied to money, power, and lack of public transparency. Most countries don't even have jury systems in their courts and you can't represent yourself within it. The predominance of mafias in Italy and their spread internationally is more than a hint of how ineffective and biased they can be.

[–] cisco877@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am not sure I understand what you are saying, it seems a bunch of buzzwords put together in a random way, starting from a civil court trial for defamation up to mafia to supreme court and back, they’re not even the same courts. Sorry I am not interested in juggling, there is a guy who has to prove that what he said has basis and is not defamation, he has money to pay for a lawyer, if you think everyone should be able to offend anyone without effects, be it, i don’t agree

[–] InternetTubes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if you think everyone should be able to offend anyone without effects, be it, i don’t agree

Sad that you don't live by your own words, but unsurprising. And it was just 5 comments that had to be consistent with each other, too.

the left wings after years of cutting public services to bend to corporativism and ECB, leaving the country in the hands of all sort of migrants without doing anything for security, finally got what they deserve