Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines
by tick_tock_tick on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:03PM
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> Do you think the Italian bureaucrats really want to ban something in France or Germany?
Yes 100% they absolutely do.
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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines
by monsieurbanana on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:18PM
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Or he perfectly understands what they meant but chose to create artificial outrage. "don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" has not aged well in 2026
No, in fact I think most in US tech are awfully ignorant about Europe. That's why I explicitly brought it up. Just because we Europeans can speak your language doesn't mean that people from the US understand how our countries work. And most US tech companies are located in Ireland in a small US expat bubble.
You are presumably also not an Italian, so I don't know why you would know more about Italy than he just because you are European. I'm also European, and I certainly don't thereby know more about Italy than about, say, the US.
The Cloudflare CEO is clearly misinterpreting something that was lost in translation, which is the bureaucrats stating "Cloudflare must prevent access to XY from everywhere". For bureaucrats "everywhere" means "in my jurisdiction". I cannot believe that the Cloudflare CEO is trying to nitpick around a single word that he so clearly misinterprets.