63 pointsby gslin4 hours ago8 comments
  • thomastrauman hour ago
    fantastic work.

    PSA: if you still think its not the time to fight for your rights for the status quo in privacy you will come to regret it. If you are the type of person who reads this type of news and thinks: "cool the system is working, it'll sort itself out" you will come to regret it.

    you will need to become more active or it will be taken away

    • embedding-shapean hour ago
      Literally it'll sort itself out, as the bans are unconstitutional and more, law just takes long time and we have other shit to sort out before starting to panic about 3-5 Cloudflare IPs getting banned for 2 hours a week...
      • swiftcoderan hour ago
        > about 3-5 Cloudflare IPs getting banned

        You missed a few zeroes there buddy

        > According to LaLiga itself, around 3,000 IP addresses are blocked every weekend[1]

        [1] https://cybernews.com/news/cloudflare-spain-laliga-piracy-bl...

        • embedding-shapean hour ago
          Which IPs that you use daily are actually affected by this though?

          I've been trying to keep track myself and so far in my months of collecting, I've noted down one service which is unavailable during the matches for me, Docker Hub, everything else seems to work today.

          Keep in mind, when they first started the blocks, a lot more was taken offline than what gets taken down when a match happens today, as they seem to continuously adjust it. The article you linked is from almost exactly a year ago, fwiw.

      • nekzn32 minutes ago
        In Spain we have a domestic abuse law that is unconstitutional (different prison terms for men and women) and it has been there for a very long time.

        What do you think are your chances of winning this in the constitutional court?

        • embedding-shape22 minutes ago
          Are you talking about "Juzgados de Violencia Sobre la Mujer" or "Organic Act of Protection Measures against Gender Violence" or what are you lamenting? What law exactly and how is it unconstitutional?

          If you're talking about that "gendered violence" gets different penalties compared to just "general violence", I think that's less about "different prison terms for men and women" but again, maybe you're talking about something else?

    • iLoveOncall33 minutes ago
      I wish people who state "you have to fight" also said how.

      The extreme majority of people has no fucking clue about how to act about anything, and it's definitely the biggest blocker.

  • mdlxxvan hour ago
    Finally, some common sense in this utterly absurd situation. I'm so glad this year's "fútbol" season ends this weekend. AFAIK, they don't break the Internet for Segunda División matches (yet!).
    • embedding-shapean hour ago
      Oh boy do I have news for you; they're thinking of doing the same for other sports now too, not just football :) At least the blocks only been for a small amount of Cloudflare IPs, but still sucks big time.
      • mdlxxvan hour ago
        Sigh. As if I had not enough reasons to hate professional sports ...
  • swiftcoder3 hours ago
    > “Inside Spain, the consequences of indiscriminate IP blocking have become almost impossible to ignore,” NordVPN writes

    Too fucking right. It is beyond tiresome to fire up the laptop and wonder whether I'll need a VPN to access GitHub today

    • embedding-shapean hour ago
      When the blocks happen, does it take GitHub with it for you? I'm on Vodafone (in Spain) and it's just a few Cloudflare IPs that get blocked during the matches, never had GitHub unavailable, as Microsoft doesn't use Cloudflare for GitHub, AFAIK.
      • swiftcoderan hour ago
        Cloudflare seems to be the most common victim, but I've seen Fastly get banned out as well (which seems to be what GitHub uses as their CDN in the EU)
        • embedding-shapean hour ago
          AFAIK, it's literally exclusively Cloudflare for me, never seen anything else (IP) banned, just the good old DNS-based blocking for some other crap, but maybe it's because of my ISP. What ISP are you on? They all seem to be responding and doing this differently.
  • ktallett2 hours ago
    Considering web addresses are easily changed, it was a futile suggestion to say block LaLiga streams. Good on Nordvpn. As a football fan, the owners of the leagues have too much power. Like in the UK people have gone to jail for piracy, which should never happen.
    • squiffsquiff38 minutes ago
      I am not defending the current situation but I am not aware of any case where anyone in the UK has gone to jail for piracy. Invariably what actually happens in such cases is:

      1. See headline 'movie pirate goes to prison' which implies a link between the activity and the event 2. Actually read article based on industry press release and learn that the defendant was actually convicted for counterfeiting because they were running a business selling set-top boxes with preinstalled unauthorised streaming software or running their own third party unauthorised streaming service with paid subscriptions or something.

    • chadgpt3an hour ago
      That is why they blocked the whole internet. You can't avoid a block by changing your address if the whole internet is blocked.
      • embedding-shapean hour ago
        Who blocked the whole internet? Doesn't happen here in Spain, which is the context for this submission, is "blocked the whole internet" what they do in the UK?
        • swiftcoderan hour ago
          > Doesn't happen here in Spain

          Yeah, it does. They banned an unreasonably large range of Cloudflare CDN IPs pretty regularly during LaLiga matches, effectively blocking big chunks of the internet from Spain. It has gained fairly broad notice across the world in the last year[1]

          [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-geGEYEw7g

          • embedding-shapean hour ago
            Haha, what? Are you going in circles? We're talking about the La Liga matches, that's the context of this conversation :P

            And no, "the whole internet" does not get blocked, a handful of Cloudflare IPs get blocked, so any neighbors using those IPs too, are also unavailable.

            Maybe it's just me, but some IPs on Cloudflare being blocked isn't "blocked the whole internet" and if you it is, I suggest you start visiting more websites than the 1-2 American ones you're stuck in seemingly.

            • ktallettan hour ago
              The whole internet wasn't blocked but a significant percentage was taken down due to the attempt to take down la liga streams. As explained, some banks, some payments systems, and a few other things stopped working due to the governments attempt at blocking streams. The government are clearly trying to exercise control over the people in a way that just doesn't work. It's no surprise though as the government has always been too heavily involved in football in Spain, especially Real Madrid and Barcelona.
              • embedding-shape44 minutes ago
                > but a significant percentage

                Which websites/services that you use was actually hit by this and what ISP are you on though?

                > I've been trying to keep track myself and so far in my months of collecting, I've noted down one service which is unavailable during the matches for me, Docker Hub, everything else seems to work today.`

      • ktallettan hour ago
        They didn't mean to, just they were incompetent. Also considering Spanish league is spread over the full long weekend a waste of time.

        However this is why infrastructure and connection method is needing to be removed from the government by creation and adoption of alternatives such as mesh.

  • anthk2 hours ago
    Sue the courts for telecomms interruption and tampering from LaLiga.
    • chadgpt3an hour ago
      You can't sue a court in a court for doing court stuff. Courts are superuser. They can do anything they want to. The recourse is vetting people before they become judges.
      • picsaoan hour ago
        This seems dysfunctional and a API for institutional subversion. If you can subvert the machinery that creates judges, you can basically take over a democracy without having any way to fix that except for institutional repair and waiting out the working lifespan of judges (which can be 1.5 generations)
        • chadgpt3an hour ago
          That is correct. It's why the Republican party went so hard to prevent any non-Republican judges from joining the supreme court over the last 1.5 generations.
          • embedding-shapean hour ago
            Really confusing to talk about "Republicans" in a thread about Spain and not making it clear if you're talking about Republicans-Republicans or the modern Faux-Republican, AKA US-Republican :)
        • radiatoran hour ago
          What do you mean "if you can"? It has already happened in several democratic countries.
  • lifestyleguruan hour ago
    Fuck European football and everything about it. Hopefully this year's world cup will be absolute unpopular failure.
  • breppp2 hours ago
    [flagged]
    • ktallett2 hours ago
      You mean other than Berlin, Malmö, Paris, London, Munich, and many others. Europe doesn't have so many huge companies but that's not a bad thing. We do have a lot of companies doing key work that may benefit society as a whole.
  • nubinetwork3 hours ago
    I'll repeat what I said the last time about laliga...

    > Foot egg is so ingrained into the countrymen that nothing else matters.

    > There wouldn't be so much of a forced monopoly if more people would stop watching games and stand up to laliga.

    > Complaining on the internet every time laliga shuts down github etc isn't going to change anything, we can't solve your problems, the change has to come from within.

    Props to the court for telling laliga to go away.

    • JrProgrammer2 hours ago
      Refering to football as foot egg when it’s actually a ball as opposed to the hand egg in the US is weird to me.

      OT: La Liga shouldn’t have this kind of power and it’s good to see the court take a stance

      • nubinetwork2 hours ago
        They call American football handegg, we should be able to do the opposite. :P
        • AndrewDuckeran hour ago
          The opposite of "hand egg" is not "foot egg".

          And the point is that the object played in "American Football" is not a ball. Balls are round. It is egg shaped. The object played in "Football" is a ball. Describing the ball in football as an egg just makes you look like you can't see properly.

        • louthy2 hours ago
          Which is foot ball. Not foot egg.
        • Yiin2 hours ago
          that just sounds petty for the sake of pettiness, surely you can do better in terms of mocking
        • ktallett2 hours ago
          The opposite would be foot ball. Although both are petty as anyway both are called it because it is played on foot with a ball. Not because you use your foot to kick a ball.
    • swiftcoderan hour ago
      > There wouldn't be so much of a forced monopoly if more people would stop watching games

      I don't think giving up one's national sport is really the right response here. We should absolutely be able to enjoy sports without bowing down to regulatory-capture-by-former-government-ministers

      • nubinetworkan hour ago
        > We should absolutely be able to enjoy sports without bowing down to regulatory-capture-by-former-government-ministers

        You're right, you absolutely should... but the only way to tell them that you don't like their policies is to stop giving them your money.