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.

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125 Bday

[GNious]

Gotta love how Spain is celebrating Franco's 125th BDay.

Well, Google wasn't expecting . . .

[PolygamousRanchKid]

. . . 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.

Ever notice something about Europe?

[TheZeitgeist]

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.

Re:Ever notice something about Europe?

[CannonballHead]

Or maybe the US-centric news site, Slashdot, just doesn't pay attention to European startups as much? Notice, too, that this particular court action was about essentially a US based company. In other words, it may affect the US, too. Same with how Apple was buying a company; didn't make the news until Apple came into play. ;)

Re:Unsure about this

[ag0ny]

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.

If I were Catalonian...

[jcr]

...and I was on the fence about secession, this shit would make me 100% for it.

-jcr