While allowing tributes to terrorists, Sánchez launches his digital censorship

Pedro Sánchez is unleashing an unprecedented offensive against fundamental freedoms, disguised with colossal cynicism.

Pedro Sánchez attacks the right to privacy and compares using a social network with buying a gun
Pedro Sánchez imitates a measure of the Putin regime to limit press freedom

A cynical pretext to promote censorship on the Internet

After spending several weeks attacking social media for removing news fact-checkers (clearly biased in favour of the left), today Sánchez has announced the creation of a new state body to control the network, the "Digital Rights Observatory". He has justified this so that "the digital space does not become the Wild West. Let us be masters of our own destiny".

Obviously, to be masters of our own destiny we don't need any bureaucrats: we just need the State to leave us alone. This hasn't happened on the Internet for years now. Between national laws and European regulations, the Internet has become the target of all kinds of stupid impositions, such as the one that requires all websites to post a warning about "cookies", a warning that nobody reads.

Sánchez's 'anti-fascist protection wall'

Under this legislative diarrhoea promoted by politicians like Sánchez, who are determined to control everything, the network is beginning to look more like the old USSR than the Wild West. But Sánchez is not satisfied with the USSR. He prefers a network that is similar to North Korea.

To establish censorship by invoking "digital rights" is a typically socialist cynicism. Let us remember that the communist franchise of that ideology called the oppressive dictatorship of East Germany a "democratic republic" and the barrier created by that anti-democratic regime to prevent people from fleeing it an "anti-fascist protection wall". In Spain we have a government up to its neck in corruption cases and that is harassing judges and the media so that they do not continue investigating these scandals of the socialists. Now it is the turn of the social networks. Just a few days ago, Sánchez attacked the right to privacy on the internet, threatening to ban anonymity. He is the same one who now invokes "digital rights" in order to reinstate censorship on Twitter, upset that Elon Musk has restored freedom of expression on that network.

The 'wild west' of the Spanish streets that does not worry Sánchez

The most curious thing is that while Sánchez believes that the Internet is the "Wild West", the streets look more and more like that, but he does not lose sleep over it. We have squatters taking over other people's flats thanks to laws passed by the left, increasing crime, illegal immigrants arriving in Spain in droves and being rewarded by the government with stays in luxury hotels and distributed throughout Spain instead of being returned to their countries of origin, and far-left thugs threatening and harassing democrats (as recently happened in Navarra), without Sánchez issuing even the slightest condemnation of the thugs.

His government authorized and supported a march by a terrorist group

A year ago, we saw something unprecedented across Europe: The government authorized a march by a Palestinian terrorist group in Madrid, the PFLP, which is on the European list of terrorist organizations. As it was not enough to authorize a march by this criminal and antisemitic group, a minister of Pedro Sánchez attended the march to support it. These events deserved harsh criticism from the State of Israel, recalling that the organizers of that march openly supported the massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023 against unarmed civilians, including children, the greatest massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

His government has allowed hundreds of tributes to ETA terrorists

Let us also remember that in recent years the Sánchez government has consented to hundreds of public tributes to ETA terrorists, tributes organized, in many cases, by its parliamentary partners in Bildu. In Spain, glorifying terrorism is a crime, but Sánchez's government is doing nothing to prevent it. In fact, two years ago socialists and communists announced their intention to legalize this crime, claiming that praising terrorists is "freedom of speech". They are the same ones who are now creating a new censorship body to control social networks, claiming that they are the "Wild West". They do not have the slightest bit of shame.

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Photo: La Moncloa.