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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. 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. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
        You mean Spain the fastest growing European country by many metrics? Not sure, we're here, been chilling all summer, time to get back to work now :) What happened to the country you live in?
        1. tyre · · focus · HN ↗
          Spain’s youth unemployment is the highest in Europe. I hope it’s improving, but economically Spain has not recovered post-2008 in line with others in the EU.
          1. miohtama · · focus · HN ↗
            Don't worry. Finland has taken over with the highest unemployment and will likely soon have the highest youth unemployment.
            1. codedokode · · focus · HN ↗
              Probably because in Finland you are provided housing and money even if you don't work.
              1. sham1 · · focus · HN ↗
                No, that's not it. Instead it's the right-wing "geniuses" running the government that have been a major cause of this. The NCP and Finns Party keep making a mess of things in the name of their ideology.
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