Spain's Internet Censorship Is a Cartel Enforcement Operation. The Stock Market Knows. Spain's courts let a soccer league boss block U.S. government websites, threaten gymnastics retailers, and criminalize the Cloudflare CEO — all to protect a telecom monopoly the market already rates a...

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The Constitutional Court has not yet ruled on the admissibility (which is quite discretionary and subject to a very high standard). Some sources covering this scandal:
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They cannot go to any lower court because they are 3p to the case that originated the (final) injunction which directly impacts them. They filed a motion for annulment because they believe they should have been a party to the case. Since it was denied, they are appealing to the Constitutional Court

La Liga relies on a court order obtained through a simulated lawsuit. The ISPs (defendants), which share the plaintiff's commercial interest as broadcasters of LaLiga matches, agree to honor the claims, leading the judge to approve the injunction without examination.

… All without hearing the supposed offenders and without redress mechanisms for the innocent sites, services or end-users impacted. It's a procedural fraud. In collusion, they fabricated a dynamic, à la carte, injunction allowing ISP-block (many times entire shared IPs) without judicial oversight

La Liga + Telefónica rely on a court order obtained through a simulated lawsuit. The defendants, ISPs which share the plaintiffs’ common commercial interests as broadcasters, agree to honor the claims, leading the judge to approve the far-reaching remedies sought without examination.

I believe the situation in Spain is unprecedented. Overblocking has impacted a Royal Academy, government websites, media outlets, online platforms (X or GitHub), banks, blogs, payment gateways, residential home automation… Cloudflare and others filed an action before the Constitutional Court.

Not a single bill passes the filter… The European Commission considers that the draft bill on Sustainable Tourism in Andalusia is incompatible with the DSA technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu/en/notificat...

We can also offer a service where it is possible to read books banned in US high schools and universities.

No todos los concerns se publican en blogs. Hay otros foros e interlocutores. Si Google estuviera de acuerdo con cómo se aplica *toda* la DSA no necesitaría, por ejemplo, iniciar acciones legales combatiendo cómo se interpretan algunas de sus obligaciones: eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2...

Que los códigos de conducta, los mecanismos de respuesta a las crisis o las evaluaciones de riegos sistémicos pueden suponer una injerencia desproporcionada en derechos fundamentales es una cuestión ya descrita constructivamente por doctrina muy autorizada:

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Sinceramente, no veo tan incompatible compartir los objetivos generales de la DSA con advertir, en un contexto muy diferente a un mero informe de transparencia, de posibles riesgos derivados de interpretaciones maximalistas de algunas obligaciones de diligencia debida.

AI and Copyright: Hamburg Court of Appeal Rejects Appeal in LAION Case | Grünecker In the proceeding brought by a photographer against LAION e.V., the Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs' appeal and confirmed the first-instance judgment of the Regional Court of Hamburg.

AI and Copyright: Hamburg Court of Appeal Rejects Appeal in LAION Case. Plain natural language reservation (opt-out) also found invalid grunecker.de/en/insights/...

I am not sure. The territorial scope of the remedy might be different depending on the cause of action. The platform may strategically elect to rely upon the DSA, which guarantees due process, a degree of transparency, or robust redress mechanisms for their users.

In fact, wasn't Russmedia a removal request primarily based on defamation and the protection of one's image rights?

Another operational challenge is determining the appropriate process for handling removal requests that allege multiple personality rights or causes of action, since these claims now appear to necessitate differing legal standards and follow different procedural requirements.

The moral imperative for autonomous vehicles The death toll on US roads each year is unacceptable for any developed country. The most recent preliminary estimates from the National…

"The moral imperative for autonomous vehicles", my article on @medium.com
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Please monitor carefully the comments your blog's visitors published, and also if the comments posted can be easily copied and distributed across third-party sites!

"132. [...] Moreover, the obligation of the operator of an online marketplace to comply with the requirements arising from the GDPR cannot, in any event, be classified as such a general monitoring obligation."

The European Commission finds that the draft of the Spanish Organic Law governing the right to rectification (aimed at regulating influencers on online platforms) is incompatible with EU law (country of origin principle and DSA) technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu/en/notificat...

El TEDH rechaza el derecho al olvido en internet sobre el pasado judicial de un empresario | CiberDerecho | LawAndTrends Últimas noticias jurídicas y legales en LawAndTrends

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ECtHR, De Pedro Guri vs Spain. Right to be forgotten. The applicant's right to private life is not violated by Courts' refusal to order Google to delist search results linking to publications about discontinued criminal proceedings✌️
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Civio pulls back the curtain on public algorithms: Spain’s Supreme Court orders the Government to release BOSCO’s source code The precedent-setting ruling states that public decision-making algorithms require transparency and oversight. The court rejects claims that national security or intellectual property can absolutely l...

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Me acabo de enterar. ¡Enhorabuena!

Lessons from Nepal on the High Cost of Controlling Online Expression | TechPolicy.Press The Nepalese government attempted to control the information ecosystem and lost control of the state itself, writes Samik Kharel.

After a sweeping social media ban, Nepal saw its bloodiest unrest in decades. What has happened in Nepal is a warning to other democracies to tread carefully with efforts to contain online expression, writes Samik Kharel.

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Spain's fight against the illegal streaming of football matches took a bizarre turn last night, as it led to the blocking of websites for at least 49 local governments and the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), a leading cultural institution. This is unacceptable!

Cloudflare inicia acciones legales contra LaLiga por sus bloqueos de IPs. Son "torpes e ineficaces" La guerra abierta entre LaLiga y Cloudflare se recrudece. Desde principios de febrero LaLiga ha estado ordenando a las operadoras el bloqueo temporal de una...

LaLiga Blocks Cloudflare Again, New Pirate IPTV Providers & Anything in The Way
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Cloudflare strikes back and launches legal action against LaLiga for their IP blocks. "They are clumsy and ineffective" 👌
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First AI fair use ruling, but probably of little predictive value for the big pending genAI cases, as it involved an AI developer that copied Westlaw headnotes to train a legal research model to directly compete with Westlaw (at least that's how the court describes it).