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Internet Censorship In Spain

Posted by timothy on from the hearts-and-minds-and-browsers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I thought it only happened in China or Arabia Saudi... but it also happens in Spain: spanish government has ordered all the ISP in the country to block the web of Batasuna which is hosted outside Spain. Batasuna is a political party from the Basque Country (similar to Sinn Feinn in Ireland) and has been recently illegalized in a very controversial decision. I can't access their web right now. Luckily, proxies come to rescue me (for instance http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.batasun a.org/g_index.htm. There are also some mirrors which are being opened in other countries and haven't been blocked yet."

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  1. About Spain's territory arrangement by TuringTest · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The 1978 Spanish Constitution establishes that Spain is a unique nation divided in separate Autonomous Communities, which are roughly like US states. We have just left a totalitarian regime that denied traditional cultural identities of the historical regions, bu the new regime is designed to favour those identities.

    The Communities have wide rights of self-goverment, including:

    • land management, urbanism and housing
    • public works
    • transports
    • culture preservation
    • public health
    • tourism
    Meanwhile, the nation reserves for itself competences in:
    • alienage and asylum rights
    • defense and public security
    • civil and work laws
    • currency
    • foreign offices
    • national statistics and referendums
    Read the Preamble and Part VIII for details.
    --
    Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
  2. From a Catalan (Catalonia another Nation in Spain) by alia23 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just my point of view.

    Today Spanish Goverment is pressing the hardest in 25 years of democracy, against terrorism. This goverment is legitimate (has a broad majority in parliament) but has a strong centralist (Madrid) point of view of things. Anyway it has adopted the path of ilegalization and prosecution that has arised controversy here. Some think it's time that somebody kick hard ETA and others think they are blocking this way the political arm of ETA closing all doors to negotiation.

    On the other hand ETA was borned during dictatorship and has no sense now. I think ETA followers maintain outdated ways to get what they want, but they aren't able to see the problem from outside its own logic.

    The relation of batasuna, eta, jarrai it's obvious to me. Jarrai perform kale borroka (street war = burning cars & busses, breaking restaurant glasses, burning cashtellers & that bad kid stuff) while ETA performs terrorism (shoot at head & bombing). Batasuna its just the political army.

    But what is also obvious its that the Basque nationalism (peacefull) its broadly supported (in fact they rule Basque Goverment), and even Batasuna (and what represents...) has some hundred thousand votes on each elections.

    I think banning that is closing the door to the voice of all that people, whatever they have to say.