The Italian version of Wikipedia has been temporarily hidden in protest to a wiretapping law currently being reviewed by Parliament.

In protest to Italy’s proposed wiretapping laws, the Italian version of Wikipedia has been hidden. Users that are looking for Italian Wikipedia will be met with a page that details how Italy’s pending Internet laws could put the Italian edition of the online, open-source encyclopedia in danger of being removed.

It explains that: “the page you want still exists and is only hidden, but the risk is that soon we will be forced to actually delete it. Unfortunately, the very pillars on which Wikipedia has been built – neutrality, freedom, and verifiability of its contents – are likely to be heavily compromised” by a law proposal known as “Wiretapping Act.”

The law would require sites to publish corrections of items deemed objectionable within 48 hours, without any kind of review.

Any individual who feels offended by an item on a blog or online publication can request a correction, regardless of whether or not the item is true and without verification that it’s actually offensive.

“Unfortunately, the law does not require an evaluation of the claim by an impartial judge – the opinion of the person allegedly injured is all that is required, in order to impose such correction to any Web site,” Wikipedia continues.

Wikipedia has now, and the site says its own internal review board has properly handled such issues in the past and asserts that there’s no reason for a law to handle them.

“During all these years, the users of Wikipedia have always been available to review – and modify, if needed – any content deemed to be detrimental to anyone, without harm to [Wikipedia’s] neutrality and independence. In the very rare instances it was not possible to reach a mutually satisfactory solution, the entire page has been removed.”

In its statement, Wikipedia included the proposed law it has taken issue with as well as an excerpt from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It posted the statement in Italian and English, as well as in Spanish, Hebrew, German, and other langauges.

This isn't the only challenge Wikipedia has faced this year. Founder Jimmy Wales confirmed in August that as the site has grown to more than three million entries, it has .

Editor’s Note: This headline on this story was updated to clarify that Italian Wikipedia does not face deletion.