{"id":63910,"date":"2026-03-12T07:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63910"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:53:26","slug":"who-watches-over-whom-in-a-democracy-and-what-does-pedro-sanchez-want-with-his-hodio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/12\/who-watches-over-whom-in-a-democracy-and-what-does-pedro-sanchez-want-with-his-hodio\/","title":{"rendered":"Who watches over whom in a democracy, and what does Pedro S\u00e1nchez want with his 'HODIO'?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are politicians who claim to be democrats but who have a completely distorted and false view of what democracy is.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/04\/spain-deserves-a-government-that-monitors-the-railways-not-opinions-on-social-media\/\">Spain deserves a government that monitors the railways, not opinions on social media<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"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\/\">A minister in Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government calls for \u201cban Twitter\u201d, like in Russia, Iran and North Korea<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in a new attempt to distract people from the corruption scandals and incompetence of his government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2026\/110326-sanchez-foro-contra-odio.aspx\" rel=\"\u201cnoopener\u201d noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez presented a new opinion control tool called \u201cHODIO\u201d<\/a> (Footprint of Hate and Polarization). <strong>Once again, the socialist leader attacked social media<\/strong>, a public forum he dislikes because opinions are freely expressed without censorship, and many of those opinions are unfavorable to his government. <strong>S\u00e1nchez had the cynicism to state: <em>\u201cIf hatred is already dangerous, social media has turned it into a weapon of mass polarization. <\/strong>A weapon that is easy to find and use. And extremely lucrative for some.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is coming from a government allied with Bildu, a far-left party that does not condemn terrorism<\/strong>, and which is also allied with other far-left parties that have not condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine or Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel. <strong>S\u00e1nchez also depends on the support of separatists (parties that promote hatred of Spain) to stay in power. <\/strong> In recent years, the government and its allies have become <strong>a constant source of attacks on the opposition, the free media, judges, the crown, and Catholics; it is also the most anti-Semitic government in Europe<\/strong>, which has gone so far as to do such savage things as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/14\/22-spanish-police-officers-injured-in-a-violent-protest-fueled-and-praised-by-the-government\/\">promoting violence to disrupt a stage of La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, leaving 22 police officers injured<\/a>, simply because an Israeli team was participating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeing that government complaining about hatred and polarization is like seeing a Nazi complaining about racism.<\/strong> What S\u00e1nchez is doing is a colossal exhibition of cynicism, and with it he is doing something else: revealing his idea of democracy. <strong>In a democratic society, it is the citizens, the media, and the judges who must monitor the government's actions.<\/strong> It is up to us to oversee what the government does with our money and with the power we have given it.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, <strong>S\u00e1nchez assumes the right to monitor citizens, scrutinizing our opinions on social media<\/strong>, in an attempt to intimidate us so that we do not dare to speak out against corruption and abuses by his government. <strong>S\u00e1nchez is using the coercive power of the state to instill fear in Spaniards<\/strong>, so that people will not dare to say anything that might contradict the government, for fear of being singled out and suffering reprisals for it. <strong>This is how power works in dictatorships such as communist China<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/21\/the-crimes-of-the-communist-dictatorship-of-china-which-is-praised-by-pedro-sanchez\/\">a totalitarian regime that S\u00e1nchez has openly praised<\/a> and which has the Spanish socialist leader as its main ally\u2014or perhaps it would be better to say fifth columnist\u2014in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the China that S\u00e1nchez likes so much, citizens are arrested for their opinions<\/strong>, simply for saying anything that makes the single-party regime uncomfortable. This regime has held power in that country since 1949 without ever holding free elections and in violation of the most basic human rights. <strong>\u201cHODIO\u201d is yet another example of S\u00e1nchez's desire to turn Spain into China<\/strong>, a country where the government monitors the opinions of its citizens, which is exactly the opposite of what should happen in a democracy. Of course, <strong>S\u00e1nchez can be sure of one thing: many of us are not afraid of him and we will continue to say loud and clear what he does not want to read or hear. <\/strong>Spain is a democracy and we will not allow an apprentice dictator to tell us what we can and cannot say.<br \/>\n---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: Grok.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are politicians who claim to be democrats but who have a completely distorted and false view of what democracy is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10395],"tags":[12063,26446,693,2721,10796],"class_list":["post-63910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-censorship","tag-hodio","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-socialism"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:05:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}