>let the payday loan predators and mafia rule their digital infrastructure as an anti example for everyone else
Why would you assume it would be an anti-example for everyone else? If other see this works in Italy with no backlash what's gonna stop them implementing it in other places?
Italy might be indeed the pilot project in implementing the vision of Idiocracy. Looking at popularity of lotteries and sport betting in other countries like e.g. Spain or Poland, I'm not joking at all.
Why would you assume it would be an anti-example for everyone else? If other see this works in Italy with no backlash what's gonna stop them implementing it in other places?