[handsclean]

What a shameless load of reframing. Let’s balance that out a little.

Italy is doing something immoral and significantly harmful, foreigners considered leaving rather than becoming complicit, this guy is morally offended that foreigners think they’re allowed to not be in Italy.

[br1brown]

OK, they are foreigners, but does that mean they can ignore the law and avoid paying fines?

and they are not simply "foreigners" but the largest web security company serving the country (including public authority websites).

[xoa]

>OK, they are foreigners, but does that mean they can ignore the law and avoid paying fines?

Uh, yes? Obviously? If they're willing to pay a much bigger price in the form of losing all business in the country completely and never visiting again. But the law and fines don't apply globally only to Italy, so if someone is not Italian and is willing to give up on a not insignificant market (and beautiful country) then sure, why wouldn't that be that? Seems like it balances out, I'm sure Cloudflare does way more business than 14M in Italy, so they're not going to be casual about it. And remember, this is just pitting one arbitrary set of business interests (IP monopolists) against another (internet service company and associated customers). Why should Italy be immune from getting pushed on by the second party there and immune from facing the cost tradeoffs? Why privilege the former commercial interests over the latter?