[bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary

Wed Sep 20 14:46:55 EDT 2017

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.

—Ayden

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:43 pm, Gus Rossi <gus at publicknowledge.org> wrote:

> Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that should include the voice of the Parliament.
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> But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170920/431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-referendum-1-o.html ).
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> So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government.
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> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline <ayden at ferdeline.com> wrote:
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>> 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!
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>> Ayden Férdeline
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>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary
>>> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM
>>> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29
>>> From: raquino at gmail.com
>>> To: James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
>>> Gus Rossi <gus at publicknowledge.org>, Renata Avila <renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
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>>> I like this thread
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>>> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648
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>>> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all
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>>> 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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>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
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>>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response,
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side.
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>>>>> 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:
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere.
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>>>>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility.
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>>>>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our organisations and spaces.
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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](http://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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