- "Mordaza Digital Law", "Decreto Sánchez", "Decreto Digital"... there have been several ways in which the Spanish Government has been designated the decree granting the competence to censor the Internet. On 5 November, it was adopted by law in the absence of five days for the holding of the elections. The Permanent Representative of the Congress of Deputies was forced this Wednesday to pronounce on whether the law was validated or not. They voted in favour of PSOE, pp and Citizens. The political forces of Euskal Herria and Catalonia have voted against, and Vox has also voted against. We can abstain.
Mertxe Aizpurua of EH Bildu has reproached Sánchez that he wants to launch "a digital state of emergency" and has accused him of "extending the hasty law to new technologies." PNV Member Mikel Legarda said that the decree could involve intervention against the autonomous administrations and voted against. Lehendakari has asked the Spanish Government to regulate the situation as soon as possible.
ERC and Junts per Catalunya have spoken harshly and, for example, the conseller of Digital Policies and Public Administration of the Generalitat, Jordi Puigneró (JxCat), has warned Sánchez that this step will not go for him for free. "Today he has put on the table a great stone that has made it very difficult for his investiture," added Pello Urizar.
We can criticise the law, which has subsequently abstained, on the grounds that the government has already announced that it is going to make some changes to the text.
The Platform for the Defence of the Right to Information (PDLI) has announced that it will fight for the suspension of the decree before the Constitutional Court.
With this law, the Government of Spain, without any judicial order, will be able to intervene in any form of citizen communication. “Direct management at any level of any technological infrastructure,” literally.