Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

Post by adastra22 » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 12:20 AM UTC

bflesch wrote: post #474

troyvit wrote: post #445

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I agree, and I'm really split about a lot of this, because screw this ~blackmail~ extortion AGCOM was trying to pull. The only thing I'd say is that a country is more than a department, and these actions will hurt others who had no influence on AGCOM's decisions far more than it'll hurt AGCOM directly. Maybe it will create pressure against AGCOM and force them to back down. But as a middle manager of a small nonprofi…

The act of threatening unrelated customers just because they are in the same country is extremely stupid. Businesses might not care whether he tweets at JD Vance or Taylor Swift, but the risk of having your website shut down because the CEO of your firewall vendor has a psychological breakdown on Twitter is unacceptable. It is Friday evening in Europe and the fact that Cloudflare leadership and Cloudflare legal team…

Post by kentonv » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 12:35 AM UTC

pop_calc wrote: post #325

The appeal to JD Vance is properly craven and validates the view that their business model is effectively a protection racket. Recall the unsavoury episode with taviso, when they lobbied the FTC to investigate him after he helped clean up their mess during Cloudbleed. They always pivot to aggression when challenged.

Post by asgeesg » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC

llm_nerd wrote: post #401

I suspect the "we're an American company and we're going to get the government protection racket to threaten you" gambit isn't going to achieve the results he's hoping for. I was reading through this and at first I saw Italy as the bad guys, demanding ridiculous asks. The moment the "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." nonsense appeared, followed right after by callouts to Vance and Musk, and threats that he's goi…

Post by anonzzzies » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

Post by 2478238434780 » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

Kelteseth wrote: post #291

joe_mamba wrote: post #250

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>They also don't make a secret out of their plan to push the far-right to end the EU. How is the "far right" gonna end "the EU"? When my GF walks alone at night through the parks she's never EVER afraid of the mythical far right for her safety, but the other people the far left won't let us talk about without being called a label and being cancelled from MSM for having common sense opinions. So if the EU were to find…

You're making it sound way more dramatic than it is [1]. And yes X is a far right echo chamber that twists the narrative so that the extreme right get the most support out of it. X is the biggest help for foreign power to sow discord among us [2] [1] https://www.dw.com/en/crime-statistics-knife-crime-drugs-lif... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo