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minus-squareKyrgizion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHow exactly will they force compliance for companies not based in Italy, or even the EU?
minus-squareorize@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoSupreme fascist control doesn’t start immediately. It needs to take one small baby step every day.
minus-squareDavidGA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoBy banning and blocking all VPN providers not based in Italy.
minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoSounds like a possible violation of EU rights. Similar practices have cost other governments dearly in the past.
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minus-squareAdmax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoNot mentionning that anyone can set up their own VPN server… Good fucking luck with that 💀
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI bet there comes the day that I need to share access to my server to allow people from other countries accessing the real free web through me…
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minus-squareneon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI’d like to see them ban Microsoft azure, aws, or whatever Google calls it. Not to mention the numerous smaller providers. Italians will just pay with crypto to get around payment bans.
minus-squareWomble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoSo by going harder on blocking content that China? Because that’s what they do but most of the big providers get through after a day or two of downtime each time the government make a change to block them.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoBetter yet, how will they determine what is “pirated content”?
minus-squaresparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoMaking something illegal and actually stopping it are two different things. Also see: drugs.
How exactly will they force compliance for companies not based in Italy, or even the EU?
Supreme fascist control doesn’t start immediately. It needs to take one small baby step every day.
By banning and blocking all VPN providers not based in Italy.
Sounds like a possible violation of EU rights. Similar practices have cost other governments dearly in the past.
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Not mentionning that anyone can set up their own VPN server… Good fucking luck with that 💀
I bet there comes the day that I need to share access to my server to allow people from other countries accessing the real free web through me…
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I’d like to see them ban Microsoft azure, aws, or whatever Google calls it. Not to mention the numerous smaller providers.
Italians will just pay with crypto to get around payment bans.
So by going harder on blocking content that China? Because that’s what they do but most of the big providers get through after a day or two of downtime each time the government make a change to block them.
Better yet, how will they determine what is “pirated content”?
Making something illegal and actually stopping it are two different things. Also see: drugs.