alt Hacker NewsItaly is much more powerful than Cloudflare is. The only sensible thing for him to do is to rush to who will protect him. If the Italian authorities would protect him from capricious use of DNS blocking requests from La Liga or Serie A or whoever he would rather go there but they won’t.
It’s an old story. You make a guy’s life hard and the next thing you know he’s working with your enemies even though he’d rather be free. He has no choice. He’s powerless on his own.
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bflesch • last Friday at 6:18 PM
Other people run to their lawyers, and he runs to Musk and Vance.
Your context window is too small, you ignored all my input.
Besides, I hope this isn't yet a minority stance on here, a democratic state is hopefully more powerful than a company, yes, indeed. The mode of a state captured by the biggest enterprises isn't really something we should run to, right?
What mr. twitter account could have done is vent all his outrage, without normalizing all that other shit. Then he has media attention and most likely some public debate, unlike many other sufferers whose life are less interesting. And you know what? The people could have found that he had a point! He could have triggered some further debate in parliament, some adjustment from the law makers. You know, the usual, normal way of respecting the rule of law, especially when you heavily disagree with one aspect of it.
Because that is what is meant by participating in what we call democracy.
I am sorry for my lack of sugar coating, but man do I get upset by the normalization of anti-democratic thinking here.