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1. miohtama · 1789889627 · 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 · 1789890473 · 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. surgical_fire · 1789897826 · focus · HN ↗

         Which just proves GDP is a low IQ metric to measure how good a country is to live in.

         I certainly would rather live places like Mallorca or Donostia than in many places that are ahead of Spain in the silly GDP game.

         Speaking of low IQ, it's pretty amusing to read that someone thinks that Spain came out unscathed from the events of 1930s and 1940s.

         1. klrefg · 1789972704 · focus · HN ↗

            > I certainly would rather live places like Mallorca or Donostia than in many places that are ahead of Spain in the silly GDP game

            If I was making as much money as I would in those countries that are ahead I wouldn’t mind living in Spain either. Otherwise good luck getting a place to live on a tiny salary if you don’t have your relatives to support you.

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