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ivl | 3 months ago

Cloudflare is right. But, it's a pretty typical EU play. Protecting more established interests but kneecapping progress.

In this case, hitting a massive number of small sites, which aren't engaged in piracy, to protect a few large entities from some other small piracy sites. It's what's happening in both Italy and Spain.

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embedding-shape|3 months ago

> But, it's a pretty typical EU play. Protecting more established interests but kneecapping progress.

It's funny that as soon as anything European (not even related to EU one bit) is mentioned, people find a way of pinning it on the European Union. The article has literally nothing to do with EU, and everything to do with individual European countries, yet you somehow found a way of blaming EU for it :)

Sincerely, Spanish internet user who gets blocked from half the internet every time a semi-popular football match is played in this country.

Taek|3 months ago

I was actually like 30 years old when I realized "EU" meant "European Union" and wasn't a 2 letter abbreviation for the continent of Europe. In the US, we call states by their two letter abbreviations (IL, NY, CA, etc), often call countries by 2 letter abbreviations too (depends on the country, but JP, AR, CR come to mind as common examples), so it's a pretty natural assumption to think of 'EU' as 'all of the continent Europe, independent of whether they participate in the governing body known as the European Union'

If you substitute the GP for 'pretty typical European play' it makes plenty of sense.

antonvs|3 months ago

> It's funny that as soon as anything European (not even related to EU one bit)

Living in the US, I've noticed many Americans don't really make distinctions like that. They see "EU" as a kind of shorthand for "Europe", or something along those lines. Even the fact that the UK is no longer in the EU doesn't affect this - it's still part of what Americans think of as "the EU".

quentindanjou|3 months ago

> Protecting more established interests but kneecapping progress.

I assume you must be American. I always find it funny that there is that US belief that Europe is "old-fashioned" with "old tech" and "old progress". I never encountered anyone yet to tell me what progress wasn't in Europe that was in the US.

I actually think this is a bit backward, with US lack of transportation funding, more people struggling with poverty, backward ecological measures, and missing health care with lower life expectancy.

epolanski|3 months ago

I'm European too, while I second what you say, I also think that Europe is old: demographically, politically and we're very risk adverse.

victorbjorklund|3 months ago

Does not have anything to do with EU. But nice try.

microtonal|3 months ago

But, it's a pretty typical EU play. Protecting more established interests but kneecapping progress.

You mean like that nasty EU law called the DMCA?

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