{"id":240941,"date":"2024-07-22T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=240941"},"modified":"2024-07-22T07:32:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:32:53","slug":"anti-free-speech-laws-hit-new-heights-in-italy-reporter-fined-for-body-shaming-pm-meloni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=240941","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Anti-Free Speech Laws Hit New Heights In Italy: Reporter Fined For &#8220;Body Shaming&#8217; PM Meloni<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2024\/07\/21\/the-anti-free-speech-movement-reaches-new-heights-in-italy-journalist-fined-for-body-shaming-prime-minister-meloni\/\"><strong>READ HERE<\/strong><\/a>: I have<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2012\/10\/14\/the-death-of-free-speech\/\">\u00a0long been critical<\/a>\u00a0of the erosion of free speech in Italy and other Western European countries, including the use of criminal libel laws against critics of the police or government.\u00a0<strong>This week a Milan court has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/20\/world-news\/italian-journalist-giulia-cortese-told-to-pay-pm-giorgia-meloni-5000-euros-for-tweet-mocking-her-height\/\">ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister\u00a0Giorgia Meloni\u00a0damages<\/a>\u00a0of 5,000 euros ($5,465) for making fun of her in a social media post.\u00a0<\/strong>Giulia Cortese was also given a suspended fine of 1,200 euros for a joke on X. It is the latest absurd example of the expanding crackdown on free speech.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}