Italy has not banned ChatGPT: that would be accomplished by a DNS-level block on national ISP resolvers that has not been applied, which would be trivially circ

Italy has not banned ChatGPT: that would be accomplished by a DNS-level block on national ISP resolvers that has not been applied, which would be trivially circumvented by using an unaffected DNS resolver. Rather, OpenAI has decided to respond to an injuction to stop processing Italian PII within 20 days by immediately configuring their Cloudflare account to block connections from IPs where the GeoIP lookup resolves to Italy, which is easily circumvented by a VPN or proxy.