[bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary

Wed Sep 20 14:29:40 EDT 2017

I like this thread

https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648

The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have
nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all

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.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
wrote:

> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response,
>
> 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 of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our
> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep.
>
> 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 understanding is that its official LEO and
> government actions here with the takedowns.
>
> -James
>
>
> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi <gus at publicknowledge.org> wrote:
>
> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side.
>
> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :)
>
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> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila <renata.avila at webfoundation.
> org> wrote:
>
>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive
>> laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the
>> last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from
>> the international community remain silent.
>>
>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere.
>>
>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective
>> responsibility.
>>
>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our
>> organisations and spaces.
>>
>> R
>>
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>> Renata Avila
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>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi <gus at publicknowledge.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month.
>>> The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the
>>> territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan 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.
>>>
>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process,
>>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted
>>> to bring to your attention.
>>>
>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over
>>> Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open
>>> Internet:
>>>
>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil:
>>> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages
>>> under that domain that have information about the referendum have been
>>> suspended.
>>>
>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including
>>> one ISOC-CAT member).
>>>
>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum:
>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are
>>> reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs:
>>> ref1oct.eu
>>>
>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is
>>> under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation
>>> by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains).
>>>
>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the
>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants,
>>> some email.
>>>
>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be
>>> worried.
>>>
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