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<div class="">First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind of action in far flung corners
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<div class="">Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different conversation but again, my
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of what is acceptable if people from the international community remain silent. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility. </div>
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parliament approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, websites have been shutdown
or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish postal service.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: <a href="http://ref1oct.cat/" target="_blank" class="">http://ref1oct.cat<wbr class="">/</a>. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are reports that Spanish
authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: <a href="http://ref1oct.eu/" style="font-size:14px" target="_blank" class="">ref1oct.eu</a></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports<span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">), and there is traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain
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