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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. ghostDancer · · focus · HN ↗
        Spain did not got hit by WW2 cause it was absolutely destroyed by a civil war beginning 1936. After that a dictatorship of 40 years and when it opened all industry got hit cause it was heavily protected and could not compete in open markets, add to that most of the working industries were cheaply sold to friends of the dictatorship who were, and some of them still are, in power positions.
        1. bsoqk · · focus · HN ↗
          >most of the working industries were cheaply sold to friends of the dictatorship

          That is completely false.

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