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Spanish Court Orders Google To Delete App Used For Catalan Independence Vote (reuters.com)
From a report: Catalonia's High Court on Friday ordered Google to delete an application that it said Catalan separatists were using to spread information about a disputed independence vote this Sunday. The court said the "On Votar 1-Oct" application on the Google Play smartphone app store opposed an order in September from Spain's Constitutional Court to suspend the referendum while it determined its legality. The court also ordered Google to block any future applications developed by the gmail address "Onvotar1oct@gmail.com', according to a written ruling. Nobody at Google in Spain was immediately available to comment.
Gotta love how Spain is celebrating Franco's 125th BDay.
. . . the Spanish Inquisition!
Their main weapons are fear, surprise, and a Catalonia's High Court order for Google to delete an application!
Yes, "High" Court, indeed.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Namely, that whenever news comes out of Europe about anything tech-internet, it almost always is about court actions, fines, and the like. Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry, or how the Europeans are taking over something. I saw article this morning about a French company that was apparently pretty good at machine vision...and how Apple was buying them.
The App was done after the government closed more than a 100 mirrors of the website.
You mean the monsters that thwart censorship and destroy government's delusion that they can dictate what people may read, write and ponder?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Am I the only one that thinks the timing of part of Spain wanting to break away and become a (tiny little) independent country is rather.. susupicious?
Yes, you're probably the only one. The movement for Catalonia's independence isn't something new. It's been going on for three centuries. There has always been a certain proportion of the Catalan population who wanted independence from Spain, but in the last 10 years the Spanish government has been restricting our autonomy, attempting to take over our institutions and instigating a wave of hate against Catalans and Catalonia in order to gain votes in the rest of Spain.
This is what has fueled the pro-independence sentiment in so many of us. Russia has nothing to do with it.
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At least one Spanish newspaper claimed a few days ago that this was happening. But as to the timing, this has been brewing for a few years. I think it's better explained by a comment I saw yesterday (and I wish I could remember where to credit it properly) that as a universal rule of thumb, nationalisms get a big popularity boost in times of economic difficulty.
...and I was on the fence about secession, this shit would make me 100% for it.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Legal problems like this aren't solved by technology; the Catalans could conceivably vote however they want but it won't matter one bit if the courts ignore the result.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.