It might not be a conspiracy theory. Europeans have serious media skeletons in there closet.

Consider La Liga in Spain. When football matches are on they have a blank check to block whatever they want wherever they want. Genuinely they take down all of cloudflare and all kinds of shit. I think they were even DNS banning everyone on .tv TLD. Its wild how much legal power they have.

This was brought up on hacker news often.

They also have their apps spy on users microphones and gps to detect where someone might be watching their streams to make sure you aren't doing it in bars. [1]

Italian media is trying to do similar stuff with their piracy shield stuff. [2]

AtomicDig219303 on Reddit when Italy blocked all of google drive.

> Wait, I don't think that your post describes how fucking idiotic this whole thing is. Piracy shield is a system implemented by AGCOM (which as OP said is a governing agency) and basically "gifted" to the fucking mafia that is Serie A (yes, the football/soccer league) to block access to pirated streams of football matches.

[0] https://reclaimthenet.org/laligas-anti-piracy-crackdown-trig...

[1] https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/06/12/inenglish/15603...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1mgq41i/italys_pira...