Robin Stowell

The math Italy just handed Netflix is terrifying for every subscription company on Earth. 5.4 million Italian subscribers. Up to €500 per Premium user, €250 per Standard user. Netflix launched in Italy at €11.99/month in 2015 and hiked four times to €19.99 by 2024. The court said every single increase was illegal because the contract never stated a justified reason for any of them. The total refund exposure is somewhere in the hundreds of millions of euros. For a single country with ~2% of Netflix's 325 million global subscribers. Here's what nobody is pricing in: Germany and Spain have already filed identical challenges using the same EU Directive from 1993. Berlin and Cologne courts already ruled that generic price-change clauses are void. Italy just gave every consumer group in Europe a finished legal template. Netflix hiked prices globally on March 26. Six days later, this ruling dropped. The company is now simultaneously raising prices worldwide while a court in its fourth-largest European market ordered it to roll prices back to 2015 levels. The real exposure here isn't Italy. Netflix can absorb hundreds of millions. The real exposure is the legal principle: telling customers "we're raising your price, you can cancel if you don't like it" is not consent under EU law. That logic applies to every subscription service operating in Europe. Every SaaS company. Every streaming platform. Every telecom. The freedom to cancel is not the freedom to agree. That one sentence just repriced the entire European subscription economy.

All of them. I'll buy them all.

TPUSA is dead.

🚨 Neuralink patient #3 Brad (ALS) just got his REAL voice back, thanks to Neuralink + ElevenLabs cloning. His family can finally hear him again! Warm, familiar, full of life. No more robotic sound. Just him. This is the most beautiful side of AI.

‼️Another long term business is closing in Portland Oregon. This is what Hookset Automotive wrote about it… THE GATES ARE CLOSED. THE DEAL IS DEAD. Twenty years of loyalty. Twenty years of sacrifice. In 2002, we fell in love with Portland’s heart. We built Hookset Automotive with grease, sweat, and a belief in this community. I traded my dream of being an architect for an oil rag to build an honest business with my husband, JC. We did everything right. Portland did everything wrong. I didn’t just run a shop; I served. I led the Parkrose Business Association. I hosted town halls. I stood before the City Council and begged for the law to be enforced. I was trying to save Portland from becoming the next Detroit. I fought for this district until there was nothing left to give. In return, the city turned on us. •Financial Extortion: The city didn't just lie; they taxed the shit out of us while doing so. They drained our resources with skyrocketing taxes while providing zero protection in return. •Betrayal: Mingus Mapps, who once ran Historic Parkrose, used our neighborhood as a political stepping stone to the City Council. He ignored our pleas while drawing a salary meant to protect our streets. •Slander: When I spoke up about the crime and the "Slough Town" gunfire, neighborhood groups responded with a smear campaign—spreading vile lies about my marriage to silence a woman asking hard questions. •Sabotage: Last week, our landlord illegally chained the gates shut while we were inside. We were held against our will. When we called 911, the police—the same officers I defended for two decades—looked at us through the fence and called it a "civil issue." They went out of their way to make sure we didn't get help, even contacting the fire department to tell them not to interfere. Your promise of protection was a lie. We gave this city our lives, and it gave us a lock and a cold shoulder. We are closing our doors because the basic rules of a civilized society don't apply here anymore. The deal we made with this city—that if you work hard, pay your taxes, and follow the law, you’ll be protected—was a total lie. To our loyal customers: You were our family. We are devastated it ended this way, but we couldn’t have tried harder. We poured every ounce of our souls into this place, only to be abandoned by the city we tried to save. Portland, you didn’t just fail us—you threw us away. Keep your "weird." We’re taking our integrity somewhere that actually values it. The gates are closed for good. (Original post from FB in comments)

@piersmorgan What about men who sing about rape? Murder? Drug deals gone right and gone wrong. Gang wars. Racist lyrics?;Nit gonna be a lot of musicians left......

Shouldn’t even be a debate. Kanye’s Hitler-loving, Nazi-slathering, Jew-hating bullsh*t should be disqualifying for appearances at any music festival.

This is absolutely insane A concerned resident in Illinois tries to voice her concerns about a Data Center Joliet, Illinois councilman Pat Mudron immediately shuts her down saying she "cannot comment on that" They won’t even let residents question them She says “I’m gonna comment on it anyway. You have officially sold out every single resident in Joliet” These people very clearly do not work for their residents

This is day 94 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act. If Senate Majority Leader Thune doesn’t pass the SAVE America Act, then I’m coming to Texas.

🔥🚨VIRAL NOW: This man left everyone in awe as he carried this woman up this massive slope with relative ease.

LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN WORLDWIDE

Peru just made a COLOSSAL crucified Jesus sand sculpture on a public beach…bigger than your average Woke Pride Float…while the West bans Christianity and calls it ‘progress’. The South is destroying the Godless Elites into an oblivion.

Disgusting

He is risen!! Happy Easter fam! Today we celebrate the greatest moment in human history. Jesus conquering death so that we could truly live. No greater love, no greater gift, no greater reason to celebrate. Wishing you and your families a blessed Easter full of joy! 🙏

@elonmusk Kids should not have direct one in one contact with AI without parental guidance. Meaning the parents have to be there 100%..

Using voice for Imagine is a great feature for young kids who can talk and have amazing imagination, but are too young to write complex prompts

You gotta hand it to @kanyewest The man is a showman!

The woman in the uber started making inappropriate comments to the driver so he booted her out. Good on him for speaking up

@Kurrco Fuck Pepsi. We don't drink that chemical ass shit. Water babes. Water.

Pepsi has officially withdrawn its sponsorship of Wireless Festival after Ye was announced as a headliner. (via ITV News)

SOMETHING SPECIAL IN DETROIT 🏀 The Pistons have players unashamed of Jesus Christ: Cade Cunningham: “I get my aura from my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” Daniss Jenkins: “It’s the Lord’s Day… I believe in God and I trust my work.” Young men giving all glory to God. 🙌🙏🏾

Italy has declared that Netflix's recent price hikes from 2017 to 2024 were illegal and enacted without proper warning for customers. Netflix not only has to reduce its price in Italy, but pay customers back every cent they overpaid.

Too pricey. 72 dollars a year if paid in full or 9 dollars a month. Nope.