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.

  • deliriousdreams@fedia.io
    5·
    16 days ago

    Corporations have rights. Quite literally. They are legal entities. We aren’t required to use their services. They aren’t required to provide said services.

    "In the UK, Article 10 of the 1998 Human Rights Act protects our right to freedom of expression: Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

    In this case public authority is the government.

    Governments have an obligation to prohibit hate speech and incitement. These are dangerous. Restrictions can also be justified if they protect specific public interest or the rights and reputations of others.