The last intervention is that of Andrea Stroppaonce defined as theElon Musk ambassador in Italy. “I oppose any government that undermines freedom of expression. The Italian Piracy Shield is a dangerous shortcut.” Words that were published by Matthew Princethe CEO of Cloudflare and the man who could decide to block one of the most important services on the internet.
To understand. Between the end of November and beginning of December in Coudflare went in down. At the time a technical problem. The list of services that crashed was quite long. Let’s talk about both small to medium sites than platforms with millions of users. Here you are. The same scenario could repeat itself soon given that Matthew Prince decided to start a battle against AgCom afterwards a fine of 14 million euros.
How the war between Cloudflare and AgCom began
We have told all the premises of this story in this analysis. Let’s summarize. On January 8th AgCom decided one Cloudflare fined 14 million eurosor for not having applied the Piracy Shield provisionsthe tool with which the sites where content is transmitted are obscured illegal way. Cloudflare rejects fine, says the Piracy Shield it is an illegitimate tool and threatens to close some of its services in Italy.
Italian sites are about to have several security problems: the words of Cloudflare
At this point a fair debate begins. Everything happens on Xthe platform on which the CEO of Cloudflare Matthew Prince released his first statements. From here a decent debate began in which Claudio Borghi, a league senator, also intervened. In the end Matthew Prince was convinced that his threats were too light and proposed directly suspending Cloudflare in Italy:
“It amazes me how many illustrious Italian technicians are writing me private messages to suggest that I block access to everything behind Cloudflare for a week. I never thought of going that far either, but it makes you wonder what would break if we did.”
Which sites will be closed with Cloudflare
To see what happens in the event of Cloudflare closing, just look at what happened with the downturns that hit the platform last month. We pulled data from those days to see which sites would be blacked out:
- Canva
- Vinted
- Zoom
- Shopify
There is also a bonus. Often with Cloudflare downs, Downdetector.it, the portal dedicated specifically to them, also collapses down reports. Those tracked are therefore only the largest ones, the problem will be linked above all to small sites that rely only on Cloudflare protection services.
