Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

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No court ruling was required; only a complaint, a commission, and a censorship protocol built for speed. Spain’s Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission, a part of the country’s Ministry of Culture, has ordered the blocking of several domains of the Archive. today service, a web archiving service. It means that most Spanish internet users who try to access the site are redirected to a government page telling them that they are trying to access an “illegal” website.

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