Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/56719476

Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, the country’s communications regulatory agency, AGCOM, announced yesterday. Cloudflare said it will fight the penalty and threatened to remove all of its servers from Italian cities.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Are they becoming less shitty or is this accidentally doing the right thing?

    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      They’re arguing that applying filters would degrade performance for everyone. So… to me that kinda sounds like accidentally doing the right thing.