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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by chrneu on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:15PM (#46558712)
you are falling into the trap of ignoring the pandering. cloudflare bro is clearly pandering here and showing that, in the moment, he will say/do whatever to whomever to get what he wants. cloudflare kind of has a history of doing this.

there was zero reason to name drop vance and elon besides appealing to their rabid fans to bolster support.

it's just more hypocrisy.

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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by iamnothere on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:43PM (#46559068)
What other option do they have? It’s either comply with unjust rulings that undermine the free internet (and their business) or make a deal with the devil. Either one is bad but only complying has an immediate negative impact.

If there was any sense that this ruling was just a temporary mistake that will be corrected by pending regulation/legislation, then a third option would be on the table: temporarily comply and wait it out. But all indications are that the EU is hell-bent on making things worse, not better, for the open internet.

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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by jacquesm on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:32PM (#46560378)
Cloudflare, the company that regularly blocks me from legitimately visiting websites because their bot detection software absolutely sucks probably is the biggest effective censor on the planet.
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