Since you wrote about that Italian court vs Google, I’ll try to explain the current Italian legislation about wi-fi hotspots.
If you share an internet connection through a wi-fi hotspot, you have more obligations than an ISP, because you share a single IP address between users and police officers want to know what each connected user does at any time.

Therefore you must keep (for 12 months) a huge log of ALL the internet activity (destination IP addresses) of every user that uses your wi-fi hotspot.
All users must be identifiable, through ID cards (you must keep a local copy), SMS or credit card.
You also must get an authorization from the police, in order to open a wi-fi hotspot.

I’ll use examples from the US, since I can legitimately can pick on those in my role as an American citizen.

A few years ago, it became fashionable to hold gun makers responsible for misuse of their products by robbers, murderers, and the like.

This is akin to holding operators of a wi-fi system accountable for behavior of its users, something dear to many American lawmakers’ [black] hearts.

So let’s push onward through the looking glass into pure La-La Land.

Some wannabe teenage driver is roaring along at 130 mph in a 50 mph zone and crashes, killing innocent people in another vehicle. Let’s sue the automaker. And let’s sue the government for not designing roads to handle cars traveling at ANY speed. And let’s sue whoever planted that oak tree the innocent victims’ car smashed into — you know, the tree that directly caused their deaths.

Why not? Hold those with NO role in ANY aspect of the accident accountable.

Heck, let’s say a U.S. soldier commits a war atrocity and is court-martialed and found guilty. Let’s try the area theater’s commanding general, then work our way on up the line to the President. That makes as much sense as anything else I’ve mentioned.

I’m reminded of the recent conviction of some Google executives in an Italian court, convicted for something they had no role in nor, indeed, any knowledge of until the case arose. I probably wouldn’t mention this case were it not true that Italy is an EU member but the Italian judge reportedly chose to ignore EU regulations in the case, those providing “safe harbor” to companies such as Google.

For the Cousins’ sake — and, by extension, my own — I do hope that Orwell doesn’t prove to have been terribly prescient.