Do they respect robots.txt?

In italian high schools you learn to hate a lot of what you do, just because you're a student and can't be bothered to enjoy an analysis of some themes - then when you're a bit older you start to appreciate what you hated much more

Age verification system just push users towards alternative websites or other ways to access it

Guess why a friend of mine who is not into computer science was telling me about him using VPN a few days ago

You are absolutely right! It takes incredible bravery to admit that if we cannot solve the problem in totality then incremental improvements are useless.

Fair point, but I have been very surprised by how many normie friends have gotten a VPN since our state mandated age checks for adult content.

This. Incremental progress is one thing, but incremental movement that makes the problem worse and actually harder to solve later is not progress.

It's indicative that maybe you're attempting to solve the wrong problem.

A non expedit towards American Christians would be so fun before elections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Expedit

You can have spacious cars without needing suvs that are land ships

No, I read part of the full sentence in italian and as far as I can understand, the tribunal contests not the fact (increasing prices), but the way that it was done which is unlawful. They also contest other things, for example, you have to say the legal words "modifica unilaterale del contratto" when changing the contract, which makes it clear you're getting screwed one way or another by the way. In this case Netflix wrote to the users "updating plan price" which is much more ambiguous and not as clear as the above saying. It is ridiculous to not know about this, because everybody here knows they're the keywords you read when somebody is raising the price of some service. Let alone a poor big tech that couldn't know they had to specify the legal phrasing.

For similar reasons, many more points of the consumer association were rejected, because Netflix in those cases fulfilled the requirements of the consumer protection code in its tos

Learned something new. Thank you! This phrasing indeed sounds like profound legal knowledge in this particular country. Quite surprising to miss on that as such a big company. Looks a bit like US legals were overconfident, or they did not have legal reps in Italy.

Wouldn't that be the case for some US states?

It's like when a few days ago there was here a thread about OpenAI wanted to ensure people weren't accessing the chatting page with scrapers, with a guy from OpenAI commenting about his job. The irony was lost

The fine weren't imposed for increasing the price, they were imposed because the way they increased and communicated the increase were against the consumer code.

Netflix said they will appeal

Obesity does too. You are consuming sometimes twice as many calories as what is needed to survive. You put strain on medical facilities as well, and increase pooled costs of healthcare. Same social ills a smoker puts on you. Second hand smoke isn't really a thing anymore with indoor smoking bans.

People that consume more are carbon sinks...

How ludicrous is this argument going to get?

Consuming more makes you a carbon sink? Quite the opposite.

Yeah - have a wee think about what a sink is bud.

Sure it does. Hospital is more busy than it needs to be and service therefore is diminished or you pay more for the same.

Also they overflow into your seat when you're on a plane flight. And the smell.

I don't actually know the math behind it but I would imagine that just smoking outside eliminates almost all the second hand smoke risk. The air outside is really really big, and the smoke is pretty small. Surely most of it misses you, even if you can smell it.

I'm from italy where we have a ban.

Some companies now make advertisements of news websites that it is clear are also part of betting companies. For example, https://www.admiralbet.news/ has as other Google result the betting website. However, I do have to say it is still less than before and it's much better