Let's make it $10 and a T.shirt for me please.

They just won't: they don't even bother to know how the internet thing works, they probably would throw some millions of public money to a "thrusted friend" of the governament just to show that they invest on the net in behalf of the Italian population.

Obviously such a ting would never work, so they can blame the internet thing forever (the only media they don't control) and ask to remove whatever they don't like from time to time without any criteria.

Actually he's Putin best buddy (when Berlusconi was elected last time he just disappear for a couple of days to celebrate with Putin in Sardegna as private jets took of the TV starlets to they amusement: Putin is well known for having donate to B. a gorgeus bid bed).

But second choice would be Mu'ammar Gheddafi, dictator of Libia, where he goes quite often embarrassing Italy (this year he sent the national acrobatic air patrol to Libia to celebrate the anniversary of the dictator: the "air force" refused to take off).

Italy politics are very found of privacy: as in no web cams, no data should be saved, no telephones conversatin shoud be intercepted.

Then you have most of the mesia system in the very hands of the government, so they don't like newcomers.

Democracy works as long as you can chose who to vote for, and you have means to chose between differents candidates based on facts of your interests.

In the latest years in Italy citizens have lost the right to choose who to elect, as the very same politics choose who can be elected, and small parties are automatically left out of parliament. If you are not part of the system you just don't get any space in TV (80% of electors base they votes on TV programs), or as soon as you do anything to gain attention you are turned in monster by a media system (look fo Minzolin of TG1) where politics chose the journalists and/or own the newspapers or TV.

Population is very old so is not used to internet (BTW: remember they used to study French at school instead of english) , government puts taxes on the Internet and digital media [1], money for the net infrastructure have been always redirect to other projects (this year was the deficit of Sicily who is one of the biggest elector of the actual government) since always, but Italy is the first country of Europe for digital TV: they give money to anyone for buying a new TV and old people almost can get new ones for free.

Right now as seven TV news shows exist (3 mediaset + 3 RAI + La7) tree are owned by Berlusconi (Mediaset), of 3 public channels 2 are controlled by the governament (TG1 wich is the prime time and most watched one, and TG2. While Tg3 is left to the opposition but RAI3 is supposed to be the "local / regional" TV so most of the news space is not about nation interests, and it's not even able to transmit the news show on prime time as Tg1 and Tg2 take both half an hour aorund prime time. So they decided to make the national interests TG shorter (as in 5 minutes). )

Then you have La7 wich is owned by Telecom: the telephony monopoly which could not exist without the government. Then there's SKY (Murdoch) which is pay-per-view, it get two times the taxes of the other channels, can't get as much advertisement of the others channels.

Berlusconi usually doesn't ever bother to partecipate to any political debate where anyone from an other party or journalist could pone questions to him. Lately Berlusconi goes around claiming that his is "The party of Love" and anyone who tries to speak against him (and there are many! ) is just "manufacturing Hate" and is against Italy: because as you said, Italians did vote for him so he shouldn't be bother with trials and other annoyances.

1 - http://punto-informatico.it/2787994/PI/Commenti/equo-compenso.aspx
       

You get more hours with Windows in order to compensate the use of the anti virus, the chance to loose your files from time to time, the time you spend to install all the upgrades, time to read the licenses...

Kinda fair to me.

BTW: you can add the victory in an italian court that has removed the DNS ban of the Pirate Bay, placing a prevedent on the matter.
More details on: http://punto-informatico.it/2417079/PI/Brevi/italia-sblocca-accesso-the-pirate-bay.aspx
if you are confident with italian language.