Today, Telegram notified all its users in Spain with this alert:
Pedro Sánchez’s government is pushing dangerous new regulations that threaten your internet freedoms. Announced just yesterday, these measures could turn Spain into a surveillance state under the guise of “protection.” Here’s why they’re a red flag for free speech and privacy:
1. Ban on social media for under-16s with mandatory age verification: This isn’t just about kids—it requires platforms to use strict checks, like needing IDs or biometrics.
⚠️ Danger: It sets a precedent for tracking EVERY user’s identity, eroding anonymity and opening doors to mass data collection. What starts with minors could expand to all, stifling open discourse.
2. Personal and criminal liability for platform executives: If “illegal, hateful, or harmful” content isn’t removed fast enough, bosses face jail.
⚠️ Danger: This will force over-censorship—platforms will delete anything remotely controversial to avoid risks, silencing political dissent, journalism, and everyday opinions. Your voice could be next if it challenges the status quo.
3. Criminalizing algorithm amplification: Amplifying “harmful” content via algorithms becomes a crime.
⚠️ Danger: Governments will dictate what you see, burying opposing views and creating echo chambers controlled by the state. Free exploration of ideas? Gone—replaced by curated propaganda.
4. “Hate and polarization footprint” tracking: Platforms must monitor and report how they “fuel division.”
⚠️ Danger: Vague definitions of “hate” could label criticism of the government as divisive, leading to shutdowns or fines. This can be a tool for suppressing opposition.
These aren’t safeguards; they’re steps toward total control. We’ve seen this playbook before—governments weaponizing “safety” to censor critics. On Telegram, we prioritize your privacy and freedom: strong encryption, no backdoors, and resistance to overreach.
✊ Stay vigilant, Spain. Demand transparency and fight for your rights. Share this widely—before it’s too late.
Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police department. Not as a witness, expert or not, but as the accused. Accused of what?
Shortly after New Year’s, I appeared on a podcast organised by young people to answer their questions on everything that concerns Gen Z today: social media, the meaning of life, their job prospects, what I call technofeudalism etc. At some point, they asked me if I had ever used drugs. Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable “I didn’t inhale”?), I said I had. Apart from pot, I told them, I had one experience of taking ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago. It was pleasant, I danced for 16 hours effortlessly but then, I added, it gave me a migraine for a week – and so I never used again. That was my introduction to making the point that, however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction – “the end of liberty”, I said emphatically.
Do you see where this is going? Yes, the Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. [Do me a favour folks: Please don’t tell Trump, OK?]
Seriously now, at a time of war, genocide, stupendous exploitation and so on, my little trouble with the inane Greek police is neither here nor there. But it is important. Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages.
So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence.
@vonderleyen@kajakallas Difendi una transizione pacifica che non è mai esistita.
È stata un'aggressione contro un paese sovrano.
Sta iniziando la nuova era della legge dei forti?
@kajakallas Difendi una transizione pacifica che non è mai esistita.
È stata un'aggressione contro un paese sovrano.
Sta iniziando la nuova era della legge dei forti?
@vonderleyen Now it will be an even crueler dictatorship.
Minorities, such as Christians, were already protected.
Because of her age, she may not be judged, but she will pay for her actions with the burden of conscience.
5°- Conceder a cualquier pseudo grupo la potestad extender a nivel social o mediático la sospecha de la duda sobre técnicos y profesionales de una agencia pública de carácter científico como es AEMET no parece la mejor manera de contribuir a la verdad y al conocimiento.
4° - Que los primeros investigados con respecto a la gestión de la situación sean técnicos y no los políticos responsables de la toma final de decisiones según los protocolos de emergencia civil merece una reflexión aparte.
3°- Venimos asistiendo en los últimos años a un inmenso tsunami de bulos meteorológicos amparados por muchos medios de comunicación empeñados en desprestigiar a esta ciencia y a sus profesionales, creando falsas alarmas entre la población (para esos no hay investigación)
2°- Judicializar una predicción meteorológica era lo último que nos quedaba por ver. Imputar judicialmente a un meteorólogo por un supuesto fallo en la previsión (y que encima en este caso no fue tal) es un insulto a la ciencia meteorológica y a quienes saben como esta funciona.
1°- Como ya se ha explicado repetidamente desde cuentas como la de @AEMET_CValencia, la previsión meteorológica resolvió de manera bastante aproximada lo que finalmente sucedió, emitiendo avisos de nivel 🔴 a las 7:36 am del 29 de octubre en la zona más afectada.