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Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by pessimizer »

simonh wrote: post #44
SSLy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone misses the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

Or the apartment bombings debacle, where the GRU and FSB launched false flag bombing attacks against it's own citizens. Several of them were arrested by police planting bombs. At one point a Duma representative denounced 'breaking news' of an attack by 'terrorists' in a specific location 3 days before it actually happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...

Pretty sure this had nothing to do with trains or negotiating with terrorists. A closer comparison would be a recent event during which a military prevented kidnappings by killing the people who could be taken as hostages.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by droopyEyelids »

y0ned4 wrote: post #12

You 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

This thread is meandering into Russian examples of government malfeasance which is cool but does everyone know about Operation Gladio in Italy itself?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by simonh »

SSLy wrote: post #46
simonh wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the apartment bombings debacle, where the GRU and FSB launched false flag bombing attacks against it's own citizens. Several of them were arrested by police planting bombs. At one point a Duma representative denounced 'breaking news' of an attack by 'terrorists' in a specific location 3 days before it actually happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...

This is widely regarded as putin's move to consolidate power.

Justifying oppression through manufactured foreign threats. Still works just as well as it ever has.

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Post by lifestyleguru »

I live in Linux bubble which gives me decent freedom and I don't follow the hopeless privacy wars. Now I feel I woke up from few decades of coma. What what?! FOOTBALL lobbyists set up DNS filter for an entire country?!

How about we cancel this mafia-drugs-hooligan industry on the entire continent? There is nothing good coming out of them.

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Post by sunaookami »

jampekka wrote: post #17
DataDaemon wrote: post #10

This 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.

Because people critizing it get labeled as a right-wing nut or similar. Currently happens in Germany because a "trusted flagger" organization (whose job is to delete so called "hatespeech") is being criticized by being directly funded by the state and the media is shielding it and deflecting criticism on behalf of the government.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by lifestyleguru »

seper8 wrote: post #15

Italy (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.

You don't like your bottle cap attached to a bottle?

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by lifestyleguru »

0x_rs wrote: post #49

"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 Intern…

I 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.
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