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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday April 14 2015, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the hi-tech-doppelgangers dept.

Common Dreams reports

After months of massive flesh-and-blood protests against Spain's draconian new "gag law", deemed "the worst cut of rights and freedoms since the Franco regime", enterprising activists held the world's first virtual protest, with thousands of ghost-like figures marching before the Spanish Parliament to prove that holograms will soon have more freedom than people. Almost 100 groups organized the action under the monikers Hologramas Por La Libertad and No Somos Delito--We Are Not A Crime.

The controversial Citizen Safety Law, blasted by human rights groups since its approval in the Spanish Congress, is scheduled to take effect on July 1. Its oppressive measures [are essentially the] government's over-the-top response to widespread anti-austerity, pro-democracy protests known as the 15M. The law's three texts--The Penal Code, the new Anti-Terror Law, and the Law on Citizen Safety--ban and punish with heavy fines and/or jail a vast array of fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly.

[...]To many, the surreal hologram protests perfectly capture the Orwellian quality of the restrictions: In the new Spain, says one protester, "If you are a person, you can not express yourself freely--you can only do (that) if you become a hologram."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @05:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @05:24AM (#170228)

    In non-violent American elections, voting for Change only changes the president's skin color and nothing else.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday April 14 2015, @09:05AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 14 2015, @09:05AM (#170282) Journal

    In non-violent American elections, voting for Change only changes the president's skin color and nothing else.

    I think it did hasten the US's slide to an abject history lesson. That should be comforting to the people who think the US is the worstest problem in the world.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @10:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @10:52AM (#170320)

    Just remember who was on the other side of that election.

    None of us had much of a choice in that election.

    It was the frying pan or the fire.

    Ok, this makes this post flamebait... the other guy, a one-percenter investment banker, was so bad people would rather have a ****** in office than have him in there.

    In this case, we voted for the one who we felt would do the least amount of damage.

    "None of the above" was not an option. If it was, I am quite confident it would have gotten 99% of the vote.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:49AM (#170737)

      Then put someone worthwhile on the ballot. Yes, it takes work. Lots of work. It's easier to sit and bitch, which is what most people do, because to do otherwise is, well, hard work.