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Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

555 points · 436 comments · latein

  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. epolanski · · focus · HN ↗
      I goddamn hate this constant bombardment on medias of this "They say it is to protect the kids".

      I was talking with my 60+ and 80+ family and they were like "yes, this is bad, but it's needed to fight pedos or terrorists", but that's obviously nonsense because anybody who doesn't want to get caught can still run its own encryption trivially.

      So no, any pedo or terror or crime ring nowadays knows how to encrypt their comms.

      This only really ends up hurting the general public safety.

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