Massimiliano Trovato is a Fellow at Istituto Bruno Leoni and a former Koch Fellow at the Mercatus Center. His research interests include tech policy and telecom regulation.
It is important to understand that this is not only about Google–and not only about Italy. Similar legal cases took place in other countries, involving companies such as Ebay or Yahoo. Not surprisingly, providers are now trying to cope with uncertainty in the only available way: through censorship.
Under the current proposal in Itay, websites like YouTube or Vimeo that stream video over the internet would be required to seek a Government license and to prevent users from uploading illegal content through their infrastructure.