We have been living through ten months during which, despite complaints from many online experts, four “nerds,” as the disgraceful Javier Tebas calls them, have been blocking thousands of legitimate websites. And now citizens are also starting to complain. Thousands. The worst part is that they do it with no oversight or transparency.
We know this from threatening letters sent to citizens, like the one David Carrero received, in which his X account was also blocked for “inauthenticity.” This account publishes technology articles, and David, aside from having a verified account, is well-known in the tech sector. Who would have reported him after that post with thousands of views where he showed the letter?
The methods they use, as can be seen in the image of the letter sent to David by LaLiga, are laughable. They install pirated APKs, watch the matches, and capture traffic. From there, they say, “this IP, this one, this one, this one,” with no further verification (though they do check something, as we’ll see later), affecting thousands of people who lose legitimate access to information.
What is behind all this?
Where are the defenders of freedom of expression? Where are the politicians who talk so much about “democracy” and the “rule of law”? Where are the public media? Absolute silence. And it’s no coincidence. They don’t even know their own responsibilities: Minister of Digital Transformation Óscar López involved in all sorts of gossip, rarely in his actual job; the Ministry of Culture responding to Gabriel Rufián instead of addressing the issue in Congress; Minister Oscar Puente waiting for a photo of the Madrid metro to post online rather than helping, despite trains and subways being public transport; the Digital Rights Observatory, which received €10M in funding, has never responded to the forms we sent through https://www.derechosdigitales.gob.es/es/contacto; and Pedro Sánchez recommending books and songs for the weekend—apparently the internet doesn’t matter if football is involved.
They fill our heads with speeches about “freedom,” “Spain,” and the “common good,” while raising taxes on the self-employed and stirring up anger. But when a private corporation decides to carry out “surgical” blocks harming citizens who have nothing to do with it—and many of us couldn’t care less about football—neither the government, the opposition, nor the relevant authorities lift a finger. I call it surgical because they cut wherever they want. AENA, MITECO, EFE, AUSOL, and many others share IPs with pirates, but of course, they are not targeted
Analysis of domains reported by LaLiga to Google for removal since September 1, 2025.
Only one politician has shown concern, Néstor Rego, whom I saw desperately listening to two privileged kids, @TristanaMg and @AlbertoRA_VOX, saying nonsense—you can see it here, thanks to nerds like @Criticomica who helped spread the word.
The worst part is that we have a political class rotten to the core, incapable of doing their job. They pose for cameras, attack each other on X, and say outrageous things to make headlines, while the country falls apart and the people don’t matter at all. Blocking thousands of websites without control, supervision, or cause, affecting thousands of innocent users, is a blatant violation of fundamental rights and freedom of information.
To make matters worse, they justify it as protecting people with mental health issues and children from sexual abuse, while Judge Ana Isabel Pérez Asenjo is still active (link) after the Kote Cabezudo case. And to top it off, Mario Diez, the lawyer who reported everything, was fined €60,000 for moral damages to this judge—the same lawyer who had to hold back tears in the documentary En el nombre de ellas, which I warn will leave you disturbed if you’re not in the right mood, but it’s essential to watch to see the power mafia at work.
I could write for a year because this political class is material for several trilogies, but I’ll stop here to remain civil, even though it’s very difficult. Spanish politics has always been pathetic, embarrassing, and utterly lacking in common sense. We could have a great country, but everyone steals and allows atrocities like the ones exposed in this article.
