Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

(reclaimthenet.org)

49 points | by latein 1 hour ago

6 comments

  • peri-cl 1 hour ago
    • calgoo 3 minutes ago
      This is working fine for me in spain so far....
    • Lio 1 hour ago
      This is so funny.

      An article about internet censorship of an archive site that requires an archive site to read!

      That’s Brilliant! :D

      • tyrabound 49 minutes ago
        I find it far more ironic that they are called Reclaim the Internet.

        I am dating myself, but I remember the Internet. It’s rather ironic too that the actual Internet, literal and figuratively free internet, was always doomed from the start, just like AI is effectively doomed in terms of it being some kind of productivity tool or amazing thing you can use to build your own thing, because the logical conclusion is very bad for most people, including the technorati types here that think themselves above it and immune.

        If you’re shocked and surprised by the way there Internet was maneuvered into the surveillance prison Flock made itself the poster child of at the hands of Mr Langley, take that trajectory and lay it over AI, but only at exponential rates. You don’t have to believe me, it won’t matter either way, it’s happening, short of the Soviet style implosion of the “American” empire.

        Maybe once the planet has been made uninhabitable to biological life there will be an AI robot cybernetic splinter group trying to “reclaim humanity”.

        • altmanaltman 22 minutes ago
          How would a soviet style implosion of the US work in real life? A civil war is far more likely and we already have historical precedence for that.

          And your AI robot cybernetic splinter group thing sounds a lot like the biblical story of Noah than anything that's based on science or you know facts.

      • Imustaskforhelp 18 minutes ago
        Let me add a few more layers just for some fun and profit :-D

        Here[0] is an archive.org page which archives an archive.is page which archives the original article about internet censorship of an archive site that might require an archive of an archive site to read (given that people of spain cant now view archive.is in the first place or might have some difficulties doing so)

        [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20260920074416/https://serjaimel...

        (If someone is perhaps interested and wants to see me talk more about what this is, then please read the blogpost that I had made for more info: https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/blog/htmlpipe-and-how-we-ca...)

    • Jare 1 hour ago
      "502 Bad Gateway" (I'm in Spain)
      • Imustaskforhelp 23 minutes ago
        > "502 Bad Gateway" (I'm in Spain)

        Here you go, this should work: https://web.archive.org/web/20260920074416/https://serjaimel...

        (an archive.org page which archives an archive.is page, might take some time to load though)

        (this uses htmlpipe, something I have made :-D)

      • embedding-shape 57 minutes ago
        Works fine for me, also Spain, Vodafone as the ISP.

        Edit: eeh, that's a different site than the one mentioned by the submission, why it wouldn't work?

        Edit2: Also, the error is wrong and server-side. If your ISP is trying to block the website, you'll get either a tls error that the certificate isn't matching, or for non-https sites you get redirected to the scary "You're contributing to something illegal blah blah".

        • jachee 3 minutes ago
          There’s a whole network of “archive.<something>” sites under the “archive.today” umbrella. I’ve seen .is .ps .md .ph and .at, at least.
  • dmortin 53 minutes ago
    Does archive.is have problems? I tried this article with it and it didn't work:

    https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/burned-out-and...

    Error: Invalid InterceptionId.

    • amadeoeoeo 36 minutes ago
      Since a few months archive.is is "unstable" from Spain. I thought the reason is the ISP but sometimes by just reloading it works... Can anybody shed some light?
      • embedding-shape 14 minutes ago
        Since a few months archive.is is unstable regardless of where I connect from, Spain or not. Are others not seeing the same thing? Maybe 20% of the times I try to use it the servers aren't responding.
  • miohtama 37 minutes ago
    Modern Spain is having patchy record with digital age. Earlier:

    1. Blocked Telegram with a court order, reinstituted after public backslash

    2. Blocks Internet and Cloudflare during La Liga matches

    3. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez from Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) has demanded the end of anonymity in Internet

    They say it is to protect the kids, but likely it is to find out who watches La Liga without a premium subscription.

    • vasco 9 minutes ago
      It started around 2008 when they had one of the most permissive landscapes in Europe with pressure by the US using the Special 301 whatchlist. Then Obama increased the pressure with Zapatero and after a couple of tries the timeline you describe was set in motion.

      Thanks MPAA and RIAA as usual.

    • darccio 19 minutes ago
      This censorship mechanism comes from 2011, when it was created under the Spanish Socialist Party's government lead by Zapatero. There was a lot of backlash, but the Intellectual Property Comission (also known as "Comisión Sinde") was never dissolved under the next governments' rules.

      Re: La Liga's censorship, it isn't promoted by the government but by La Liga itself with the collaboration of the largest ISP, Telefónica/Movistar. Movistar used one of the subsidiaries to denounce themselves and other IPs so they would reach a friendly agreement (again, with themselves) that the judge considered enough to enforce the current Cloudflare blocks.

    • jimbob45 23 minutes ago
      What happened to Spain? They didn’t get hit by WW2 and yet…are a distant sixth in economic size behind even Russia.
      • bloak 5 minutes ago
        According to GDP per capita, Spain is below Italy, but above Portugal. Has its position changed much over the last century? I would be interested to see a measure of that, but how far back is it feasible to estimate GDP per capita?

        I don't know how Spain was affected by WW2, but they had a very nasty civil war just before WW2. I'm not sure if that's relevant to GDP per capita, though, because a war can sometimes improve the economy by leading to the overflow of a system in which progress is blocked by a relatively rich ruling class.

      • embedding-shape 13 minutes ago
        You mean Spain the fastest growing European country by many metrics? Not sure, we're here, been chilling all summer, time to get back to work now :) What happened to the country you live in?
      • guille_ 17 minutes ago
        PSOE happened
        • embedding-shape 12 minutes ago
          > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

          But then again, discussing politics hardly ever gets less divisive here or elsewhere.

        • lnsru 7 minutes ago
          I was been there. I mean socialist fantasy and everyone was equally poor except party members. It is astonishing to watch this shit happening in different countries with different cultures during long period of time. But with same end. And it is not prosperity. This time in Berlin as recent example: https://www.politico.eu/article/berlin-election-housing-cris...
      • kakacik 13 minutes ago
        There is only so much one can reach economically with all mañana and siesta and hard push for socialism/communism. They also seem to enjoy importing tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from north Africa into EU in one big move, consistent with above (what rest of EU thinks is clearly not important). At least they don't seem to be having italian-level of corruption managed by mafia.

        With all that said it would be strange if they would be further, prosperity comes from hard work and discipline.

        • guydoom 0 minutes ago
          Insanely ignorant comment.
        • embedding-shape 10 minutes ago
          > With all that said it would be strange if they would be further, prosperity comes from hard work and discipline.

          It must really suck for all of you living outside of Spain, looking at us taking naps and being "inefficient" with all our communism, yet we have health care, and work/life balance and have time enough for family and hobbies.

          Of course, best is to just see it like there is no prosperity in the country, because there are no startup unicorns or billionaires buying up our media.

  • outside1234 42 minutes ago
    Did they find a La Liga game on it or something?
    • nadermx 35 minutes ago
      La liga isn't even necessary, in similar vain another site blockin

      "Yout then filed an official appeal at Spain’s Supreme Court. Among other things, the site objected to the fact that it wasn’t in any way involved in the blocking lawsuit.

      The Supreme Court denied hearing this appeal because Yout.com is not a party to the legal procedure. That was, ironically, one of the main reasons why the appeal was filed in the first place."

      https://torrentfreak.com/yout-com-challenges-site-blocking-i...

  • Imustaskforhelp 33 minutes ago
    I'd built something which can allow people to archive archive.is pages on archive.org.

    https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/blog/htmlpipe-and-how-we-ca...

    This could perhaps be used for this purpose.

    I have submitted it on hackernews once again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773417

    (Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574562)