Walled Culture has been following the sorry saga of Italy’s automated blocking system Piracy Shield for a year now. Blocklists are drawn up by copyright companies, without any review, or the possibility of any objections, and those blocks must be enforced within 30 minutes. Needless to say, such a ham-fisted and biased approach to copyright …
Presumably VPNs and Tor still work. I often have to use those in areas where internet access is restricted. Sure, Italy shouldn’t be doing such stupid things, but we don’t have the power to change that, we have the power to create decentralised and people controlled system to give power back to us.