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For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal
(www.politico.eu)
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So does the government ban the news from criticizing them just because they’re not anonymous? That’s not the way it works in the EU. You’re very lost it would seem…
Not yet. Because they don't have the mechanism.
And it's not about Sánchez and his government. I don't think they would do it. But governments change, sooner or later someone else will win elections. Someone who might not agree with criticism.
And don't try to convince me "it would never happen in the EU". We have more than enough examples that eventually every country has a brush with authoritarianism. Even in the EU currently (eg Hungary). Prevention is always better than trying to fix it later.
Literally spain too. That whole Francoist Spain thing only ended in 1975.
Yes, and not thanks to the internet.
You know the things that started happening everywhere in the democratic world from 2015 on or so though?
Turns out the internet as is doesn’t do much to advance democracy, but it’s great for destroying it.