{"id":63269,"date":"2026-02-05T06:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63269"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:07:49","slug":"a-minister-in-pedro-sanchezs-government-calls-for-ban-twitter-like-in-russia-iran-and-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/05\/a-minister-in-pedro-sanchezs-government-calls-for-ban-twitter-like-in-russia-iran-and-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"A minister in Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government calls for \u201cban Twitter\u201d, like in Russia, Iran and North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coalition government of socialists and communists led by Pedro S\u00e1nchez continues its escalation of threats against freedoms.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/04\/the-creator-of-telegram-points-out-the-risks-of-pedro-sanchezs-digital-censorship\/\">The creator of Telegram points out the risks of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's digital censorship<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/03\/can-you-imagine-a-politician-forbidding-your-children-from-reading-books-and-censoring-the-ones-you-read\/\">Can you imagine a politician forbidding your children from reading books and censoring the ones you read?<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A communist minister who considers an uncensored debate forum 'anti-democratic'<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the government agency <a href=\"https:\/\/efe.com\/ciencia-y-tecnologia\/2026-02-04\/ministra-rego-limitar-prohibir-x-poblacion\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Efe<\/a> published statements by the Minister of Youth and Childhood, the communist Sira Rego<\/a>, regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/03\/can-you-imagine-a-politician-forbidding-your-children-from-reading-books-and-censoring-the-ones-you-read\/\">the digital censorship announced by S\u00e1nchez<\/a> on Tuesday. If the Socialist leader intends to prohibit access to social media for those under 16 and impose content censorship on those networks, <strong>Rego goes even further: <em>\"The next battle must be aimed at limiting and surely prohibiting Twitter.\"<\/em><\/strong> The communist minister asserts that this free and uncensored space for the exchange of information and opinions is \"anti-democratic,\" a statement that is very <strong>reminiscent of when the communist dictatorship of East Germany called itself a \"democratic republic\"<\/strong> and built what it termed an \"anti-fascist protection wall\" to prevent people from fleeing the country.<\/p>\n<p><big>The measure proposed by Sira Rego is in force in seven dictatorships<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Sira Rego demonstrates that she has the same inverted concept of democracy. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Censorship_of_Twitter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The ban proposed by the communist minister is in effect in dictatorships such as communist China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Myanmar, Venezuela, and Turkmenistan.<\/a> The only democratic country that has blocked Twitter is Brazil, with a far-left government that is following the same totalitarian path as S\u00e1nchez in Spain. <strong>In fully democratic countries, access to social media is completely free. What Rego intends is to imitate dictatorships.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>Rego's party, the PCE, openly supports several dictatorships<\/big><\/p>\n<p>To understand this minister's statements and falsehoods, some context is necessary. <a href=\"https:\/\/izquierdaunida.org\/2019\/06\/27\/la-eurodiputada-de-unidas-podemos-sira-rego-candidata-de-la-izquierda-a-presidir-el-parlamento-europeo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sira Rego is a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE)<\/a>, an extreme left-wing party that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/22\/six-spanish-political-parties-support-dictatorships-and-all-six-are-left-wing\/\">has made statements of support for dictatorships such as Cuba, Venezuela, Belarus, China, North Korea, Iran, and Vietnam<\/a>. In 2022, a year before being appointed minister by S\u00e1nchez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/08\/un-eurodiputado-de-podemos-dice-que-en-cuba-hay-una-democracia-representativa\/\">Rego traveled to Cuba to support the communist dictatorship<\/a> that has governed that country without free elections since 1959. In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elpce\/status\/1820849434931982629\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her party, the PCE, supported dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> after his latest electoral fraud to remain in power. Therefore, if Twitter bothers Rego, it's not because the network is \"anti-democratic,\" but because it's not subject to its censorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the above, it is worth remembering that on March 1, 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/02\/cuatro-eurodiputados-espanoles-de-extrema-izquierda-no-condenan-la-invasion-de-ucrania\/\">Rego refused to support the European condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a>. At the time, she was a Member of the European Parliament for United Left, one of the electoral brands of the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/19\/los-partidos-politicos-mas-prorrusos-de-cada-pais-miembro-de-la-union-europea\/\">one of the most pro-Russian groups in the European Parliament<\/a>. Likewise, on October 19, 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/19\/pedro-sanchezs-partners-reject-european-condemnation-of-the-hamas-terrorist-attack\/\">Rego voted against the European condemnation of Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel<\/a>, the largest antisemitic massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust. <strong>Rego not only failed to condemn this criminal attack but even justified it<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/CaDSI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling it a \"right to resist\" in a message posted on Twitter<\/a> on the very morning that Hamas terrorists were torturing, murdering, and raping Jewish men, women, children, and even babies.<\/p>\n<p><big>An attempt to undermine democracy by a left wing sinking in the polls<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>It's not surprising to see this totalitarian escalation in a government that has such an extremist minister as Sira Rego.<\/strong> What is truly abnormal is that a European Union country has anti-democrats in its government, people from <strong>parties that have never won an election and who are simply there because S\u00e1nchez needed their support<\/strong> and was willing to do anything to get it, because <strong>S\u00e1nchez feels more comfortable with totalitarians like those of the PCE than with democratic parties that aren't left-wing.<\/strong> He has been demonstrating this for almost eight years with his actions at the head of the government.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the line separating the ideological positions of S\u00e1nchez's party, the PSOE, and its communist partners is becoming increasingly blurred. <strong>The Socialists have allowed themselves to be dragged to the extreme left<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/02\/27\/el-origen-golpista-totalitario-y-violento-del-psoe-un-pasado-que-hoy-intenta-blanquear\/\">thus returning to the PSOE's totalitarian past<\/a>. S\u00e1nchez is the main architect of this regressive drift that <strong>is now eroding democracy at a time when polls predict an electoral debacle for the left<\/strong>, weighed down by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/12\/socialist-corruption-in-spain-briefly-explained-to-people-from-other-countries\/\">its corruption scandals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/02\/infrastructure-in-spain-a-chilling-look-at-an-outrageous-socialist-neglect\/\">the bloody consequences of its terrible management<\/a>. The idea of \u200b\u200bS\u00e1nchez and his partners is very clear: <strong>since they are not getting the result they want in a democracy, they intend to undermine it<\/strong>, violating freedoms and adopting mechanisms typical of authoritarian regimes <strong>to ensure their continued hold on power by any means necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe. 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