Standing up for the open Internet: why we appealed Italy’s "Piracy Shield" fine

Cloudflare outlines its legal and policy challenge to Italy's 'Piracy Shield', a black-box system that lets private rightsholders request rapid blocking of websites and IPs without judicial oversight or transparency; the scheme has caused extensive accidental overblocking, disrupted legitimate services, and led AGCOM to impose a €14 million fine on Cloudflare, which the company is appealing while seeking disclosure of the records underlying the blocking orders.