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"Piracy Shield" is an unmitigated disaster, a terrible idea everyone knew would be useless and harmful, but Serie A bribes make up for it. The next step has alr
by 0x_rs 2y ago
"Piracy Shield" is an unmitigated disaster, a terrible idea everyone knew would be useless and harmful, but Serie A bribes make up for it. The next step has already been announced, going after VPNs. Yeah, you read that right, because of a stupid football league there's attempts undergoing to block commercial VPNs and managers instigating against them without even knowing what they are.
Italy is diving into the Internet dark ages, the past few years have been a disaster after another. Another recent ruling will attempt to limit access to adult-content and unrestricted social media usage only by using the government-mandated, privately-owned identification system (SPID) and sites not complying will be blocked. Europe as a whole is heading in this direction with other things such as ChatControl too.
- lifestyleguru 2y agoI love how the largest IT innovation coming from Italy is internet gambling and sports betting. It's a lost case, let the payday loan predators and mafia rule their digital infrastructure as an anti example for everyone else.
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago>let the payday loan predators and mafia rule their digital infrastructure as an anti example for everyone else Why would you assume it would be an anti-example for everyone else? If other see this works in Italy with no backlash what's gonna stop them implementing it in other places?
- lifestyleguru 2y agoItaly might be indeed the pilot project in implementing the vision of Idiocracy. Looking at popularity of lotteries and sport betting in other countries like e.g. Spain or Poland, I'm not joking at all.
- yard2010 2y agoIt wouldn't be Italy without a few dark ages here and there, historically speaking