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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. guille_ · · focus · HN ↗
        PSOE happened
        1. fcatalan · · focus · HN ↗
          Since the end of the Civil War in 1939, Spain has spent roughly 65% of the time under Right/Far-Right rule and 35% under Left/Center-Left rule.
          1. bsoqk · · focus · HN ↗
            Since 1978 Spain has spent 100% of the time under left rule.
            1. fcatalan · · focus · HN ↗
              By my count 30 years out of 48 are not nearly 100%. If you consider Suarez, Calvo-Sotelo, Aznar and Rajoy leftists you might be a bit too much out there.
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