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Unsurprisingly Spain joins the ageist censorship campaign against young people access to internet, The idea first implemented in Australia is rapidly expanding globally.

Furthermore, Spain and other countries like France seeks to end anonymity on social media.

Pedro Sánchez announces new initiatives to prevent "the digital space from becoming the wild west"
https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/presidente ... tales.aspx

Pedro Sánchez defends three measures in Davos to regulate social media within the framework of the European Union

https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/presidente ... davos.aspx

Feijóo (PP) accuses Sánchez of copying his measure to ban social media for minors under 16.
https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/politi ... -anos.html

Glossary and context for Non-Spanish people:
Pedro Sánchez (from the "PSOE" political party) is the current President of Spain

PSOE stands for Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (currently is not really a communist party but a social-democratic one)

PP stands for People's Party (is the main "opposition" of PSOE)

Spain since the Spanish transition to "democracy" has had a two-party dominant system which varies between electoral coalitions led by the PP or PSOE.

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HumanBeing wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 5:29 pmPedro Sánchez announces new initiatives to prevent "the digital space from becoming the wild west"

It makes me laugh quite a bit as a statement, because it implies that until just the other day the digital world wasn’t the Wild West. It always has been: it self-regulated, and that period was the golden age of the internet. Then came those who wanted to turn it into a business. Then regulations piled on top of regulations, and the trend toward more and more regulation just keeps going. I hate it when emergencies are invented just to push even further toward freedom-restricting measures.

Out of pure spite, I’d push to redirect all traffic through Tor and [BANNED TEXT] sites, encouraging as a best practice rather than buying a VPN the purchase of a VPS to make available as a node.

They don’t want minors using social media? Fine: they’ll use darknet social media instead.

On some level I hope this unprecedented crackdown is going to radicalize a new generation of youth liberationists over the coming decades, but the way this has spread is horrifying

Not Forever wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 6:41 pm

HumanBeing wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 5:29 pmPedro Sánchez announces new initiatives to prevent "the digital space from becoming the wild west"

It makes me laugh quite a bit as a statement, because it implies that until just the other day the digital world wasn’t the Wild West. It always has been: it self-regulated, and that period was the golden age of the internet. Then came those who wanted to turn it into a business. Then regulations piled on top of regulations, and the trend toward more and more regulation just keeps going. I hate it when emergencies are invented just to push even further toward freedom-restricting measures.

Out of pure spite, I’d push to redirect all traffic through Tor and [BANNED TEXT] sites, encouraging as a best practice rather than buying a VPN the purchase of a VPS to make available as a node.

They don’t want minors using social media? Fine: they’ll use darknet social media instead.

In the UK Porn websites with little moderation that refuse to comply with UK age verification laws are having increased traffic because children and especially teens are still searching for porn online

The number of average daily visits to Pornhub fell from 3.2 million in July to 2 million in the first nine days of August.

However, the data also showed that some smaller and less well regulated pornography sites saw visits increase.

A spokesperson for Pornhub told the BBC: "As we've seen in many jurisdictions around the world, there is often a drop in traffic for compliant sites and an increase in traffic for non-compliant sites."
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17n9k54qz2o