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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ayden Férdeline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayden@ferdeline.com" target="_blank">ayden@ferdeline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I'm not looking to get into the matter of the broader intervention, Gus; if we are focusing on the .cat situation, which is where I thought the conversation had gone, then that *was* a judicial decision. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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                    <div>There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I think it is important we remember this. Thanks!<span class="m_5723748753443750164HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span>
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                                <div>Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary
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                                <div>Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM
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                                    <div>The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all
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                                    <div>i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius responsible for this raid.
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                                                <div>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
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                                                <div>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
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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>
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                                                                                                            <div style="font-size:12.8px">This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: <a href="http://ref1oct.cat/" target="_blank">http://ref1oct.cat<wbr>/</a>. nic.EU
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