[anakaine]

I have to doubt that it would push the populace against the company when the company is actually both providing good (free protection, DDOS mitigation, CyberSec) and supporting appropriate judicial process to make decisions.

[gpm]

Political threats of withdrawing from an event in an explicit attempt to pressure the country is the opposite of supporting appropriate judicial process.

[tonyhart7]

so you want cloudflare to pay fines that 2x revenue of italy customer while also demand cloudflare for services it provides ?????

not counting that the fines also outrageous, 2% global revenue and IP+Domain block for global despite it only Italy request it ????

[concinds]

Is this some weird variant of the right-wing claim that freedom of association is “censorship”? Why would a government be entitled to free shit?

[tsimionescu]

No one is entitled to free shit, but anyone who says "I'll stop giving you free shit unless you do X" is not giving you free shit, they're engaging in barter. And bartering to try to change a law, just like paying to change a law, is obvious and illegal corruption.