No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During Catalonian Referendum

Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by panarky on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:14PM (#15388415)

Government censorship of the Internet is prohibited by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, both of which guarantee everyone's right to receive and impart information and ideas regardless of frontiers.

The Spanish government's censorship of online speech during the Catalonian referendum period is so wildly disproportionate and overbroad, that its violation of these instruments seems almost beyond dispute.

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by craftyguy on Monday October 02, 2017 @08:46PM (#15389176)

It'll be interesting to see if the EU enforces this, or if they look the other way.

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by gcristofol on Monday October 02, 2017 @08:51PM (#15389204)

They looked away when the Spanish police was using batons and tear gas on Catalan citizens, so I very much doubt they would move a finger for Internet censorship; Shame on them.

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by Pirolita on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:14PM (#15389308)

The Spanish police didn't use tear gas, stop spreading lies.

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by smhenderson on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:28PM (#15389378)

Not lies and trivial to find news stating the truth - http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/europe/catalonia-spain-indepen...

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by gcristofol on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:02PM (#15389548)

Any legit international source of news would give an idea of the magnitude of the issue. Sadly Spanish news outlets are in the hands or PP government big time.

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by gcristofol on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:19AM (#15390543)

Here the Spanish "news" vs international press http://www.publico.es/tremending/2017/10/02/la-prensa-seria-...

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by pvaldes on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:43AM (#15393168)

> Government censorship of the Internet is prohibited by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

I seriously doubt that they had internet in 1948.

In any case the beginning of the phrase was casually omitted. Should be: "With an exceptionally narrow range of exceptions [link], Government censorship of the Internet is prohibited by ..." That omision is relevant for the debate, because when you follow the link in the eff.org article it states that the need to protecting national security, public order, or rights and reputation of third people, are valid exceptions to this rule.

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Re:No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During C... by KGIII on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:55PM (#15389511)

I believe the justification they used was that they have a clause for promotion of illegal acts and that their cosntitution expressly forbids seceeding.

I am not suggesting that I support this, merely sharing information from a few links posted in a previous story on this subject,

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