Der CEO von Cloudflare hat damit gedroht, das Unternehmen aus Italien zurückzuziehen und die kostenlosen Dienste, die es für die Olympischen Winterspiele anbieten will, einzustellen
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/cloudflare_vs_italy/
Der CEO von Cloudflare hat damit gedroht, das Unternehmen aus Italien zurückzuziehen und die kostenlosen Dienste, die es für die Olympischen Winterspiele anbieten will, einzustellen
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/cloudflare_vs_italy/
6 Kommentare
Good for them!
I hope the Italian government learns just how ridiculous their asinine censorship policies are.
Just give them a taste, 3 days. They’ll freak out
How dare a sovereign government pass its own laws
When I mentioned this 3 days ago, people downvoted me saying this is impossible and Cloudflare will not even consider that. Hehe, lmao.
This is a very mixed bag of things.
On the one hand, a democratic country, in the EU, should never poison DNS, because it itself feels harmed (be that true or not). On the other, CloudFlare being this absurdly powerful _is_ a problem.
But CFs size is a train that has long left the station… when people complained about the initial wave of hyper-centralization (remember when „cloud“ was the current exec buzzword?) they did not listen. Now, those companies are literally so big, that they can bully a government – legitimately.
On the other hand is the issue of self-sovereignity of a country. Like it or not, it is within their right to disallow, outlaw and ban stuff.
I stand here: CloudFlare is a US company – Italy has no juristiction over them. If they want to block things, they should use their local ISPs to do so. And if they can’t – well, guess it’s shopping time? Im sure there’s companies that would **love** to sell that kinda software… cough, cough. :p
I have mixed feelings on this as I’m pro-piracy and against censorship. But on the other hand, fuck American corporations trying to threaten sovereign European nations.