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• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any…

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Who is on this committee?

• @claudioborghi Claudio Borghi A. on x

  @eastdakota @Cloudflare Mr. Prince, I'm an Italian Senator and I've read your message with great concern. AGCOM is an indipendent authority, so the fine is not a government decision but I think the decision could arise from an anti-piracy law designed to crack down on illegal sit…

• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  More of how crazy this is: the order fining us notes that Cloudflare had just under $8 million in Italy-based revenue in 2024. But the scheme allows “up to 2% of GLOBAL REVENUE” for damages. Using global revenue is further example of the extra-judicial overreach. #absurd

• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  @ClaudioBorghi @Cloudflare We are happy to engage in a dialogue to resolve these issues. We don't want piracy on our platform: it clogs our pipes and costs us money. We work with rights holders worldwide in cooperation yo address it. Unfortunately, Italian authorities have been u…

• @daphnek Daphne Keller on bluesky

  The DSA does not empower Trusted Flaggers to do anything special about TOS-violating content.  They exist for notifying platforms about *illegal* content.  Also, all Trusted Flaggers get is faster review.  Platforms can and do reject their flags.  They've done that a LOT, histori…

• @daphnek Daphne Keller on bluesky

  AGCOM also gets that “most unhinged” title because, I am reliably informed, they insist that DSA Trusted Flaggers can flag *legal* but TOS-violating content and get special accelerated platform review for those flags under the DSA.

• @daphnek Daphne Keller on bluesky

  To be clear, this is an ITALIAN law.  It isn't EU wide, it isn't part of the DSA, it isn't even part of the filtering rules from EU level copyright law.  —  It sounds much, much worse than any EU-level law, and also hard to reconcile with the CJEU's Telekabel Wien ruling.

• @daphnek Daphne Keller on bluesky

  Apparently AGCOM wanted Cloudflare to filter roughly 200 *billion* daily DNS requests, using a blocklist that's full of documented errors blocking legal sites.  Under a law that requires blocking within *thirty minutes*.  —  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...

• @daphnek Daphne Keller on bluesky

  Also Italy's AGCOM, the most unhinged of the national regulators enforcing the DSA + other important laws, tried to fine Cloudflare 14.2 million Euros and @eastdakota.com is NOT having it.  —  This is not under DSA, it's under Italy's bonkers “Piracy Shield” law.  [image]

• r/europe r on reddit

  Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS * TorrentFreak

• r/europrivacy r on reddit

  Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

• r/technology r on reddit

  Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

• r/italy r on reddit

  Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS * TorrentFreak

• r/Piracy r on reddit

  Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS * TorrentFreak

• r/eutech r on reddit

  Cloudflare defies Italy's Piracy Shield, won't block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

• r/EUnews r on reddit

  Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

• @acvalens.com Ana Valens on bluesky

  The image Matthew Prince posted while responding to the $17 mil Italian fine is utterly bonkers btw  —  x.com/eastdakota/s...  [embedded post]

• r/Piracy r on reddit

  Cloudflare defies Italy's Piracy Shield, won't block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS