Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org)

Spain's autonomous Catalonia region wants to hold a referendum on independence next weekend. Spain's Constitutional Court insists that that vote is illegal, and has taken control of Catalonia's police force to try to stop the vote. They're deploying thousands of additional police officers and have seized nearly 10 million ballots. And now the Internet Society has gotten involved, according to an announcement shared by Slashdot reader valinor89: Measures restricting free and open access to the Internet related to the independence referendum have been reported in Catalonia. There have been reports that major telecom operators have been asked to monitor and block traffic to political websites, and following a court order, law enforcement has raided the offices of the .cat registry in Barcelona, examining a computer and arresting staff.

We are concerned by reports that this court order would require a top-level domain (TLD) operator such as .cat to begin to block "all domains that may contain any kind of information about the referendum."

Comments

Before talking about censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

It's interesting to check the two sessions which took place on 6 and 7 September of Parlamento de Cataluña and see how they broke their own law and how they have suspended the parliament sessions after the referendum. ... And they talk about censorship.

Re:Not smart, but it is right

[ArylAkamov]

All nationalists are secret members of the NSDAP?
People spewing their biased political opinions are getting more hilarious by the hour.
Want to be independent? You must be one of dem der NAZIS!