Nothing surpsises me about a single small sectional interest (football copyright) being able to wreak such havoc and inequity on a whole nation. Italian standards of governance are a joke.

One of the best lectures on censorship I've come across is Ada Palmer's "Why We Censor: from the Inquisition to the Internet". It lays out the universal nature of such regimes, including their slapdash conception and setup, and the arbitrary and indiscriminate targeting they engage in thanks to how co-optable they are.

Presumably VPNs and Tor still work. I often have to use those in areas where internet access is restricted. Sure, Italy shouldn't be doing such stupid things, but we don't have the power to change that, we have the power to create decentralised and people controlled system to give power back to us.

It would be worth adding the number of paid users and other data before and after the introduction of piracy shield, no one I know who used to pirate football stopped doing that in the last year. So it's not only dangerous but also probably useless