Isnt taking down illegal content censorship?If not you can get around the absolute statement “censorship is always bad” by just making more things illegal.I think censorship is so clearly good in some scenarios that we would never think to even debate it. Like child porn.

soon with the age verification laws, the mass surveillance laws comingwe&#x27;ll have a great wall of Europe ... my guess is that they&#x27;re following the Russian &#x2F; Chinese model.banning of VPN is a matter of time.then the days of free or anonymous internet is behind us.

It&#x27;s not just Europe. DMCA takedowns in the US: no liability for taking down innocent content.Really, it comes down to this: censorship is bad. Always.If someone violates the law, get a court judgement. With the judgement in hand, take down that specific material.Too much work? Tough...

It&#x27;s ridiculous. Not being able to work (or having tools&#x2F;certain websites fail randomly each time there&#x27;s a high audience match) because &quot;soccer&quot; tells you a lot about the priorities of the country. Or at least of the elements that make these kinds of decisions and policies possible...We even got an isitchristmas.com-like website to track this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hayahora.futbol&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hayahora.futbol&#x2F;</a>). I admit I find it a bit amusing.

&gt; Also, somehow small towns always find money available for soccer related stuff (like building stadiums, events, etc.) but there is no money for improving healthcare or building parks.Bread and circuses. Whatever it takes to suppress the instinctual nationalistic ambitions of the people by redirecting their spirits and energy into &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null

... Out of curiosity, why did they close the street? Was it to turn it into public walking space? (I&#x27;m trying to imagine a reason and coming up short...)

&gt; Also, somehow small towns always find money available for soccer related stuff (like building stadiums, events, etc.) but there is no money for improving healthcare or building parks.I mean Texas can hold a candle there. Nearly 30 high school football stadiums with 10,000+ capacity (and 20,000 in a few cases), built for amounts sometimes exceeding $50M each. Some of the stadiums are shared with track and field etc., but others are &quot;exclusively used by the high school football teams&quot;.

In the US there is lobbying. In Spain there is soccer. I have seen crazy things done just for soccer. The town I used to live in closed my street for a few weeks during one world cup. I wasn&#x27;t able to use my garage during all that time.Also, somehow small towns always find money available for soccer related stuff (like building stadiums, events, etc.) but there is no money for improving healthcare or building parks.I hated that

I can assure you the situation in Italy is just as bad.We do have an independent telecommunications authority, but it&#x27;s been subservient to the Serie A (rather, the companies who own the broadcasting &#x2F;streaming rights) diktat almost completely.

Such an obvious thing, should have been there from day 1.The situation in Spain is particularly crazy. How can la liga have this much power over the Internet?

The real damage from over blocking isn&#x27;t a few customer service calls to the ISP or a couple of lost customers...The real damage is the millions of hours of wasted time of the citizens of the nation.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage