I haven’t been talking about this specific case about Cloudflare, at all. To set the record straight, I am unequivocally against the Italy government trying to ban pirate sites, that’s absolutely wrong.

What I am arguing against is the absolutist sentiment that “censorship is always wrong, in whatever circumstances, no matter what it is used to do”. Granted, I could have been more tactful talking about this under a post where the government is using censorship to do a terrible thing. But my position is still my position.

Like, we want gun control, don’t we? Because gun kills people. Speech can kill people too! Many, many people has died because of the current rise of vaccine hesitancy. If you want to regulate guns to reduce harm, why won’t you want to regulate speech too?