Thanks to a gag-law introduced in Spain in the year 2015, people are being fined just for clicking the like button on a video of an out of shape cop or just for sharing it. It happened in 2016 with a video of a national policeman in Santiago, unable to catch a suspect on-the-run, shared over 300 times on social media. First victim of this law was a citizen criticizing 'lazy' police, describing his local police force as "slackers" on Facebook. A few hours later, they turned up at his doorstep and fined him. A Spanish woman was fined €800 just for posting a picture of police parked in disabled parking spot. A Journalist was fined €600 for uploading photographs to his Twitter account of police arresting a woman who had failed to appear in court… and so on and so on, the list is infamous. Using Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to call on people to protest in Spain can lead to a fine under this repressive law in an attempt to put repress to the spontaneous protests that have proved very powerful in building the indignado movement. The "gag law" harks back to the repressive days of the Franco regime or Orwel novel 1984. #censorship #surveillance #power #politics #staterepression By Entter and I.
