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Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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He knows the only way he wins this is if the current US Administration goes to bat for him.

At this point, I'm wondering to what extent all this batting is driving the EU calls for digital sovereignty, and to what extent those calls will be turned into actions.

EU is extremely good at "calling for" things to happen. I haven't seen a single one of those things actually happen.

Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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I agree with the CEO, while also feeling a bit nauseous at the MAGA Musk suck-up at the end - I suppose this is the game you have to play with this current administration.

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Yes and yes. Individuals have their own political views. In tech, those are overwhelmingly liberal. It follows that they would implement liberal policies of their own accord. This isn't sucking up to some policy that happens to be favoured by trump, this is sucking up to trump himself.

Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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I don’t know the backstory but Cloudflare arguing for an open internet is super ironic, presumably he means they want the be the one to close it off and are upset that someone else is ruining their monopoly on it.

I honestly don't see the irony. I believe Cloudflare tries to argue for an open internet. I use some of their features on the free plan and it's of tremendous help, especially considering the price I pay (ie 0$). I'm actually super glad that Cloudflare exists.

Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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Italy is much more powerful than Cloudflare is. The only sensible thing for him to do is to rush to who will protect him. If the Italian authorities would protect him from capricious use of DNS blocking requests from La Liga or Serie A or whoever he would rather go there but they won’t.

It’s an old story. You make a guy’s life hard and the next thing you know he’s working with your enemies even though he’d rather be free. He has no choice. He’s powerless on his own.

Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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Don't worry, this time it's the Social Democrats who ban books, it's _totally_ different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta...

> Participants: Republican lawmakers in red states

oh weird, it's the opposite of what you said.

Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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One? Elon banned thousands after he took over. He event went as far as personally canceling a Tesla customer's order for criticizing him. That's how petty he is. He has no interest in freedom of speech whatsoever, it's merely a talking point.

I disagree. Freedom of Speech guarantees the right to speak. Not the right to have no repercussions. Elon has GREAT interest in Freedom of Speech, it enables him to have far more power than regulating the type of "speech" he showed in cancelling that customer's order.

try posting "cisgender" on xhitter

Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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> I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. Pretending to take a principled stand against censorship but then randomly throwing flowers to two of the bigg…

He knows the only way he wins this is if the current US Administration goes to bat for him.

Indeed, but that doesn't mean I have to be fine with that. He already had a perfectly good case against that fine, but using the occasion to cozy up to actual fascists completely discredits him to anyone serious.

Re: Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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Don't worry, this time it's the Social Democrats who ban books, it's _totally_ different.

Most western countries who care about IP have banned piracy. I'm not anti piracy but it's silly to compare.

Back in the day it was US media companies which started the big war against piracy and for the use of DRM. It was pushed by US media companies and the US government upon Europe. Same as with software patents. It's weird that now US companies complain about local media rights holders doing their censorship thing when the whole thing was started by the US.
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