What the actual fuck.
I hope this is a crappy April fool’s joke.
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Nope, it’s true
Confirmed with vpn. This is for real.
Confirmed without VPN 😀
😢
I’ve been living in italy 13 years now, and this is the kind of stuff that I still baffles me.
It’s almost like Italy (and Europe more broadly) is committed to making sure the population stays poor and dependent on the government for everything.
It’s so paternalistic. Drives me nuts.
You don't agree with the synthetic meat and bug ban either?
Nope. But I don’t know enough about either issue to really comment.
Generally, my feeling is that if there is some scientifically provable (repeatable, real science; not sciencism) reason that something is harmful to human health then I can see space for regulation.
To me that’s one of the core roles of government, set clear rules of the game for a society based on provable reality.
Banning because something might be a bad idea or because you disagree with someone else’s judgement of what’s valuable or not isn’t ok.