cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/56719476

Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, the country’s communications regulatory agency, AGCOM, announced yesterday. Cloudflare said it will fight the penalty and threatened to remove all of its servers from Italian cities.

    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Ah yes, USA - the country with the most strict anti-piracy laws, also responsible for forcing them onto the EU. I’m sure it’ll happily defend piracy from supposed attacks on free speech.

      • MisterD@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        The US government knows they can’t turn off the Internet for everyone like they did in Iran.

        This is how they will cut off individuals from the Internet