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Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

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  1. miohtama · · focus · HN ↗
    Modern Spain is having patchy record with digital age. Earlier:

    1. Blocked Telegram with a court order, reinstituted after public backslash

    2. Blocks Internet and Cloudflare during La Liga matches

    3. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez from Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) has demanded the end of anonymity in Internet

    They say it is to protect the kids, but likely it is to find out who watches La Liga without a premium subscription.

    1. jimbob45 · · focus · HN ↗
      What happened to Spain? They didn’t get hit by WW2 and yet…are a distant sixth in economic size behind even Russia.
      1. kakacik · · focus · HN ↗

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        1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
          > With all that said it would be strange if they would be further, prosperity comes from hard work and discipline.

          It must really suck for all of you living outside of Spain, looking at us taking naps and being "inefficient" with all our communism, yet we have health care, and work/life balance and have time enough for family and hobbies.

          Of course, best is to just see it like there is no prosperity in the country, because there are no startup unicorns or billionaires buying up our media.

          1. sajithdilshan · · focus · HN ↗
            That is again an ignorant comment. Youth unemployment is 2nd highest among EU countries (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destatis.de&#x2F;Europa&#x2F;EN&#x2F;Topic&#x2F;Population-Labour-Social-Issues&#x2F;Labour-market&#x2F;EULabourMarketCrisis.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destatis.de&#x2F;Europa&#x2F;EN&#x2F;Topic&#x2F;Population-Labour-So...) and also Spain currently has a housing&#x2F;property crisis.

            You don’t need startup&#x2F;billionaires to buy your media, but they are snatching up your land for sure.

            1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
              every country has a housing&#x2F;property crisis as a consequence of late stage capitalism.

              You might find it odd that a communist country can suffer from late stage capitalism. That&#x27;s because it isn&#x27;t a communist country - hope this helps.

        2. guydoom · · focus · HN ↗
          Insanely ignorant comment.
        3. ghostDancer · · focus · HN ↗
          You don&#x27;t know how hard is to maintain a country when you have to run in front of the bulls while making a paella at the same time you dance some flamenco.&#x2F;s

          I guess that&#x27;s your view of Spain, you should read and view things from more modern years than the 1950&#x27;s. Also talk or Morocco and his allies USA and Israel about the immigrants that the mafia sent into Spain and Spain has never been communist or socialist, unless you don&#x27;t what socialism and communism is.

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