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> Kind of wild that a private company has that kind of power Also kind of wild that it’s a private US company pushing their current political views on another
by isodev 9mo ago
> Kind of wild that a private company has that kind of power
Also kind of wild that it’s a private US company pushing their current political views on another sovereign state. Cloudflare as a political tool of leverage is a level of dystopia we really should try not to unlock.
- johncolanduoni 9mo agoThey're threatening to take their ball and go home. If they move all of their operations out of Italy, under what principle does Italy demand they block content globally? Should Wikipedia remove their page on Tiananmen Square because the Chinese government demands it (which they would, if they thought it would work)?
- randomNumber7 9mo agoThe Chinese are smart enough to realize how evil you look if you ask for s.th. like that.
- staplers 9mo agoa private US company pushing their current political views on another sovereign state This has always been the case in the western world, even before America itself existed. Some use the US govt (CIA) as leverage but often will just do it themselves.
- msh 9mo agoi think it’s quite normal and always have been normal for companies to leave countries when the regulative environment goes against them.
- account42 9mo agoMost of them are not as brazen as putting "change your laws or here is how we will fuck you over" in a tweet.
- nl 9mo agoWhat are the exact political views the Cloudflare is pushing here? That it is unreasonable for Italian soccer rights owners to try to use Cloudflare to enforce their broadcast restrictions with 30 minutes notice? That it is unreasonable not to have a appeal right for these restrictions? That the technical solution demanded is technically infeasible? Not sure that these are political views at all.
- SkiFire13 9mo agoI can assure you that a lot of Italians agree with Cloudflare on this topic.
- iamkonstantin 9mo agoI think the parent is trying to say that whatever issues Italy may have internally, it's not up to Cloudflare to comment or enact solutions on their own.
- davidguetta 9mo agoThey push nothing, they push back on retarded decision. Italy is not even a real market for them