it is so dystopian…
How long until people will be carrying Raspberry Pis over the borders for their own hotspots? /s
It’s crazy how quickly mass censorship is becoming commonplace though. From shadowbanning on Reddit and Twitter, to court blocking in the UK, Spain and Italy.
The Internet gives some power back to the people, the powers that be would love to see it crash and burn.
MFW I climb a light pole outside of the McDonald’s to install my solar powered rpi jump box and find that there are already seven other solar powered rpi jump boxes up there.
MFW this is the fourth pole I’ve tried.
Why not use TOR?
AirVPN is an Italian company incorporated in Rome.
Of course they comply. 99.9% of VPN providers are however not domiciled in Italy or elsewhere in the EU, and don’t give a flying fuck about Italian demands and jurisdiction.
This is a total non-issue.
Exactly: Italian companies (like AirVPN) are now forced to comply to the new law, but being a member of the EU means you cannot forbid other EU countries to sell you their products. So any Italian citizen has still the right to purchase the same service from any other Country, thus stifling their own economy.
The current Italian Government keeps fucking themself in their own ass with this kind of actions: they get bribed by big companies (in this case Comcast’s Sky and DAZN) and keep putting in serious difficulties small local companies, because of their total inability to think even a single a step ahead
deleted by creator
How would it affect their economy?
Reading the article: A ruling body filled with randos puts a site on a block list and every VPN operating in Italy must block the site within 30 minutes. There is no review or judicial oversight to sites added to the block list. This seems to include all forms of VPNs, including corporate ones. They could start charging a premium to Italian users which would start affecting businesses, I guess.
Lol. It’s common place for companies to use pirated software in order to reduce costs.
Licences and subscriptions can get expensive, so when companies get forced to increase costs, they tend to fuck off somewhere else.In poorer countries, sure.
In most 1st world countries, using pirated software is basically giving groups like FAST a licence to fuck you out of business.
Italy isn’t a 1st world country. It only looks that way at the top.
It’s really not.
In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.
Lol. You think Italy is rich? The lower you go down the boot, the poorer the leather.
Remember the bridge that collapsed because the company that built it cut corners? That’s the standard of business there.The bridge was near Genova, in the North, btw. For good or for bad, Italy is still a member of g7, and despite the gazillion problems, relatively to other countries, it is a rich country.
Scarry read.
Not really. The article mentions exactly one provider that doesn’t accept Italian users… And if you look into AirVPN, you’ll find that it’s an Italian company… i.e. the only provider actually within the realm of Italian cease & desist orders. Nobody else cares whatsoever.
On the plus side, maybe more tor users?
Man, I’ve used AirVPN forever. Should I change now?
Id like to know as well
As an Italian… Fuck
Will this change something for italian pirates?
I was in Italy in maybe 2013 or 2014 and every vpn ever was blocked. The only one that wasn’t blocked was the one running on my home server back home. Even mcdonalds wifi in Methsota US isn’t like that.
The Italian population is very old. This old generation of white man can’t die fast enough
This whole thing happened while a young woman is in power. This has to do with submission to economic power, not with gender and age.
I think from her part it was more about planting the seeds of a censorship tool than pleasing economic powers. Right-wing scum always attack freedom of speech first.
I don’t think this is needed to implement censorship. It’s Italy, I know better than thinking something is done out of malice, when it can be the result of incompetence. I completely believe this is some idiotic implementation of what football an TV economic powers wanted. Either way, this idea that everything bad is because “old white men” is bs. We don’t even need meloni, we can use the dear iron lady as an example…class and economic positions count way more than age and gender, ultimately.
Mh, interesting, I would like to disagree
