Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by mitxela on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:08AM (#49775003)

Why is it? You don't get to censor important sources of information and then literally just cite "why not?" as the reason.

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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by ctenb on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:25AM (#49775158)

The linked wiki page lists the reasons. You can't just say these are not good reasons without saying why

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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by mitxela on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:38AM (#49775254)

Which one of them justifies the government putting you in prison for accessing the information?

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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by iamnothere on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:15AM (#49775542)

“Protecting democracy” or something Orwellian like that

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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by mitxela on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:41AM (#49775788)

archive.is protects democracy and that's why it must be illegal to access?

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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by iamnothere on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:09PM (#49777723)

I mean that’s probably what they believe, the idea is to shape favored outcomes by denying their voters access to information.

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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by MC995 on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:51AM (#49788844)

Unironically, yes.

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