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Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
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#12You don't block an entire tram line just because there are pickpockets on board some trams
The "solutions" implemented here in Italy are not solutions, but abominations imho
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#13Relatedly, Backblaze b2 is routinely blocked by corporate IT (and even Chrome's anti-malware list from time to time) for similar "bad neighbour" reasons.
It's bad enough that you basically have to stick a reverse proxy in front of it to reliably serve content at scale.
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#14At some point google should consider offering a VPN service :)
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#15Italy (and many other European countries) could be great and wealthy countries once again, if only it wasn't for the witless bureaucrats in charge. The only thing we seem to be innovative at is coming up with ridiculous amounts of useless regulation.
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#16You don't block an entire tram line just because there are pickpockets on board some trams The "solutions" implemented here in Italy are not solutions, but abominations imho
Nah you fill it up with poison gas because you don’t negotiate with terrorists.
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#17This is just the beginning. Read the DSA (Digital Services Act), where private companies will be able to take down any content or comment.
There's been surprisingly little discussion about the DSA. The brussels corporate lobbyists really earned their salaries with that one.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
More like crazy censorship that masquerades as anti piracy measures are incredibly short sighted measures by dumb governments that just hurt the honest users. Pretty sure the pirates are all laughing their ass cheeks off right now.
Yes this sort of thing makes public cloud unreliable for mission critical systems
Why? Dumb government censorship could also block your private cloud as well.
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#19You don't block an entire tram line just because there are pickpockets on board some trams The "solutions" implemented here in Italy are not solutions, but abominations imho
Nah you fill it up with poison gas because you don’t negotiate with terrorists.
If anyone misses the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
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#20This is how we get to big brother 1984 status. Slowly and gradually in the name of public safety. First you limit information deemed “harmful”, next you make it illegal, then you use your powers to make your own rules.
With the corporate control structure, it looks like we’re heading more towards Neuromancer or Brave New World than 1984. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.