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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by sammy2255 on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:15PM (#46556180)
Germany banning books.. sounds awfully familiar
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by simianparrot on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:52PM (#46556702)
Don't worry, this time it's the Social Democrats who ban books, it's _totally_ different.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by undeveloper on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:04PM (#46556886)
Most western countries who care about IP have banned piracy. I'm not anti piracy but it's silly to compare.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by bflesch on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:15PM (#46557027)
Back in the day it was US media companies which started the big war against piracy and for the use of DRM. It was pushed by US media companies and the US government upon Europe. Same as with software patents. It's weird that now US companies complain about local media rights holders doing their censorship thing when the whole thing was started by the US.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by oytis on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:10PM (#46557803)
I'm not sure, does US not block websites by DNS? Wrt Anna's Archive they've gone as far as revoking its main domain
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by bflesch on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:12PM (#46558681)
US owns the registrars, they just deregister domains they don't like and show some sort of FBI logo instead.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by linkregister on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:59PM (#46557654)
I demand the RIGHT to get media for free without paying for it! And I equate this with a ban on literature!
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by bakies on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:14PM (#46557015)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta...

> Participants: Republican lawmakers in red states

oh weird, it's the opposite of what you said.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by miningape on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:45PM (#46557447)
Politics isn't the exclusive hobby of the united states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/the-spd-parties...

And by the way, in the same wikipedia link you posted, there's documentation of Democrats also banning books.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by bakies on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:19PM (#46559498)
What book banning are you referencing, then? it's all very vague
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by asgeesg on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:18PM (#46561239)
I can buy all the books listed there in the USA.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by bakies on Saturday January 10, 2026 @11:19AM (#46566971)
That's privilege. They're not available at the library at the learning centers.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by asgeesg on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:56PM (#46569327)
*learing centers
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by bakies on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:48PM (#46577800)
Now I understand you live in a skewed world view
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by robinhood on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:16PM (#46557051)
Not every comment about Germany requires a mention of a dark past.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by sammy2255 on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:22PM (#46557136)
Doesn't require it, but in this case it sure is relevant
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by robinhood on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:29PM (#46557236)
It does not, since the context is absolutely not the same. Closing a major piracy actor VS actions that led to a world war.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by sammy2255 on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:42PM (#46557403)
Banning books is the same as banning books. Whether it's in the name of censorship or anti-piracy
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by oytis on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:13PM (#46557846)
Not sure you can call it censorship if it's the author of the book who doesn't want you to access it for free. I know there are a few levels of indirection here, but with a few notable exceptions authors are normally against their books being pirated.

I personally sure want Anna's Archive staying up, but comparing it to nazis burning books is a bit too much IMO

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by squeaky-clean on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:45PM (#46558299)
This isn't banning books, it's akin to banning a book store. If a book store chain isn't paying their taxes and gets shut down, the books have not been banned or censored.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by hermanzegerman on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:19PM (#46557934)
Because the US doesn't act against copyright infringement? They just suspended the Annas Archive .org domain

At least we don't ban books from Libraries, because they contain the true history or "wrong thought" and Republicans don't like that

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by carefulfungi on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:21PM (#46557977)
Don't even need to rely to anti-piracy to find book banners. US public schools continue to accelerate their book banning tendencies.

* https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/ * https://www.ala.org/news/2025/04/american-library-associatio... * https://cdhe.colorado.gov/banned-book-list

Book bans at department of defense high schools are resulting directly from this administration's executive orders.

* https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/dodea-book-bans

We need to keep fighting for the right to read freely.

Meanwhile, waiting for Cloudflare to walk away from their US government contracts to protest these blatant free speech attacks.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by tick_tock_tick on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:06PM (#46558592)
I mean when Germany is jailing people for being "offensive" it's hard not too.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by bflesch on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:53PM (#46559905)
You are confidently incorrect, very impressive.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by dang on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:21PM (#46557965)
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html