This is a separate discussion, on which tbh I have not a strong opinion. I can understand the risks of children without proper sexual education consuming porn, but I also understand the pointless nature of trying to block it.

In fact I don’t personally agree with doing it here, but I mean, there is no other way to do age verification. There are technically ways that can make sure the only data reaching the end customer (the porn site) is a boolean (minor or not), and the identity verification is generally done by another entity, but ultimately yes I agree, I wouldn’t do it either and I personally think it’s not worth in this case at all (I think proper sex education in school is probably what I would invest on).

There is also another thing to consider though, which is that porn is different from -say- a gambling site (where you have to make identity verification) mostly due to religious/moral stigma on sex. This makes me a little bit conflicted because I would like a society in which sex is freed from stigma and shame, and where “associate yourself with a porn site” is not as bad as it is now. Definitely the age verification is not the way to pursue this objective, but overall this makes me ask questions like "why would I have not a problem doing the same for a gambling site but I would for porn? Does it align with my values or is it coming from cultural pressure I disagree with?

Many appliations do identity verification: financial platforms, crypto scams, roblox, car sharing platforms… It nowadays takes a couple of minutes and it’s done once, associated with your account. I am not saying I agree with the idea of doing it here, but I think that many people wouldn’t care to change platform. And if they do, some other platform will grow and eventually will have to do the same.

The bridge was near Genova, in the North, btw. For good or for bad, Italy is still a member of g7, and despite the gazillion problems, relatively to other countries, it is a rich country.

I don’t think this is needed to implement censorship. It’s Italy, I know better than thinking something is done out of malice, when it can be the result of incompetence. I completely believe this is some idiotic implementation of what football an TV economic powers wanted. Either way, this idea that everything bad is because “old white men” is bs. We don’t even need meloni, we can use the dear iron lady as an example…class and economic positions count way more than age and gender, ultimately.

This whole thing happened while a young woman is in power. This has to do with submission to economic power, not with gender and age.

Hey, until those are money that go from VC leeches to actual workers, I call it a win.

Zelensky’s campaign was supported by a Ukrainian oligarch. Not exactly an “absolute outsider”. In fact, during the campaign the supporters of Poroshenko (who tend to be more nationalists) used this as ground to accuse him of being associated with Russia (among other things).

I think the answer is fairly simpler, from my point of view: because NATO is not a military alliance among peers. It is the military arm of the American empire. This allows US to essentially manage the foreign policies of most of NATO members, but it also comes with the cost of being the one paying the bills. Empires are expensive.

I will skip commenting the rest because, well, you are entitled to your own opinion and you can loathe who you want. I would perhaps simply suggest to look at your own country with an outside perspective and realize that if everyone used your same logic, the world will be a more hateful place than already is.

Sure, but the conclusion is still the same: saying that Italy is a “fascist country” is bs.

“Italy” did not, a minority of people, who did for all kind of different reasons, did. A subset of those is probably a nostalgic.

Meloni’s party benefited from the fall of the other right wing parties. The core base which is probably what I would call fascists are probably close to the usual % her party was getting few years back: 3-5%.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with “being a fascist country”. Words have meaning, and a fascist country is a dictatorship in which freedom of press does not exist, where minorities and political opposition is systematically repressed, killed, silenced, etc. Thankfully, we are still very far from that.

If you read about this matter, you would know very well that the matter is way more complex than “he did not want to stand trial”. The whole matter is very well described by Stefania Maurizi (a journalist who cooperated with Wikileaks) in her book “Secret power”. Both the Swedish and the UK government have huge responsibilities on how (bad) that case was handled.

Meloni has still been voted by a minority of people, considering the incredibly low turnout in the last elections. “Fascist” country seems very much pulled from your ass, especially when talking about something started by the previous city government of Rome.

IDF soldiers have long been safe and secure in Israel without any pushback from residents. It’s time for them to reap the rewards of their support. If they still stand by the IDF, so be it.

This is your alter ego from across the border speaking.

It is well known that those are the only two options. Also, the problem here is that the task is not possible, according to UN personnel, not me or you. So this feels a lot as just a way to create plausible deniability by saying “we tried hard to spare civilians”.

Pretending to be talking about good and evil is defending murdering children. 300 children (according to The Guardian who quotes Palestine authorities) died from Israel strikes already. It’s not like killing in uniform and with “precision” strikes is less killing.

It is exactly both sides, although there are qualitative (hamas raids of innocents were somewhat more brutal and violent) and quantitative (many more palestinians dead) differences.

Then there is the whole historical analysis which is a whole other debate.

Well, sure, but war crimes are war crimes.

Just to note, there are reports (I am following the Guardian’s blog) that IDF did not “roofknock” in at least one occasion yesterday, suggesting that maybe they stopped the practice. We have very little news from Gaza for obvious reasons though.

You can male the same argument the other way around. Why don’t we stick to what’s already international war, and that attacking civilians is forbidden? This seems a form of collective punishment as well.

I assumed the “story” was the personal one of Messina-Denaro.