And the correct response to that is to write up a threat towards the entire population of a country?

It absolutely is. Why should people receive a free service while their democratically elected officials enact laws that enable them to target global revenue in their fines?

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Aeolun a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not the whole population. Only those using cloudflare to protect their websites?

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bluecalm a day ago | parent | prev [-]

What else could they do? The government represent the country. If their business model is not welcome there then they withdraw. It's very fair to say "if you insist on those rules I choose not to play". They owe Italy nothing.

Btw, I recently "threatened" Switzerland to withdraw my business from there because the cost of doing business there (complying with their VAT regulation) is higher than my revenue from there (maybe 1-2 licenses a year). The whole Switzerland will not be able to buy my software because of that. I didn't think of posting about it on Twitter though.

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Foxboron a day ago | parent [-]

> What else could they do? The government represent the country. If their business model is not welcome there then they withdraw. It's very fair to say "if you insist on those rules I choose not to play".

They can just not threaten the population of Italy? They are a 2 billion dollar company that has apparently scheduled a meeting with the vice president of the US on short notice? This is going to be resolved politically.

> Btw, I recently "threatened" Switzerland to withdraw my business from there because the cost of doing business there (complying with their VAT regulation) is higher than my revenue from there (maybe 1-2 licenses a year). The whole Switzerland will not be able to buy my software because of that. I didn't think of posting about it on Twitter though.

You have not given "free services" to 20% of the world wide web that you are now using as leverage.

	▲	yibg a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Politic is not separate from the population though. Pressure from the population (hopefully) sways political decisions. This is why google news pulling out of countries were public.
	▲	Moldoteck 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		how would you not threat? Are you willing to donate $ for cloudflare to operate there with such fines?