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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: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 14 2015, @11:57PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 14 2015, @11:57PM (#170645) Homepage Journal

    That seems to make sense. So it's some journalist's fantasy calling it a hologram?

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