Technology & Science
Italy Slaps €14M Fine on Cloudflare, Triggering DNS Censorship Standoff
On 8-9 Jan 2026 Italy’s AGCOM fined Cloudflare €14.2 million—1 % of its 2025 global turnover—for refusing since Feb 2025 to add country-specific pirate-site blocks to its global 1.1.1.1 DNS; Cloudflare will appeal and is threatening to pull its servers and Olympic cybersecurity from Italy.