Apparently all of south western europe blocks half the internet in the name of football. Besides Spain there's also Italy, France, Portugal and surprisingly the UK somewhat.

Every single day, I find another reason to be ashamed of my country. We're on a speedrun to turn a modern democratic country into a corrupt shithole in every way imaginable.

Not sure what they are doing, but I am in Spain; most non tech people friends who like football have a little 'device' they get from their local friendly 'internet installer' which gives them free(-ish; they pay a few Euro per month, I guess for the VPN?) football (+ any other tv/movies/etc). And this is non tech friends who wouldn't know what a VPN is for the 1 million$ question on that show. So clearly it's all kind of useless (we know).

And so far Starlink (I cannot get anything else on my farm) seems to not have joined in the fun; I can reach anything still; probably not a big enough target.

We’ll wait a minute here! Why not call it LLM-archive.today??? Obviously we’re not trying to hurt someone’s copyright!!! We’re making a derivative work from it!!! An LLM! So Europe can be cool too!! Oh but you’re saying downloading the entire internet in the process violates someone’s copyright?? Well now, don’t be dramatic, what if we fall behind China?? Surely a little copyright can be violated for that. /rant that I have in my head whenever someone complains to the government about copyright. Either charge LLM providers for copyright violations, or be done with it, and declare copyright dead. Can’t have it both ways, or sooner or later people will figure out a loophole to it anyways.

Fun fact I learned in Spain recently. They block Cloudflare Edge IPs during soccer games. Took me a long time to figure out why I was having intermittent outages.

Access to information feels to me like a human right. Blocking that by any means (legal blockade, price unrealistic high) feels like an infringement on a Human Right.

I know this isn’t the way the world works yet, but a Human can dream.

Spaniard here, it's interesting that I haven't noticed any disruption with archive.is in the last weeks. Just checked today and though that it might be iCloud relay, but i don't have it enabled. I'm only using Google's DNS and am too lazy to try with my ISP ones.

Compare this to the absolute mayhem with the soccer matches blocking that will bring down an inordinate amount of legitimate sites during a match.

Not sure what are the technical measures they are deploying in one case or the other but I suspect that when Telefonica is involved they bring the big guns.

The Kremlin troll admin has already blocked my country, nothing of value was lost.

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...

Modern Spain is having patchy record with digital age. Earlier:

1. Blocked Telegram with a court order, reinstituted after public backslash

2. Blocks Internet and Cloudflare during La Liga matches

3. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez from Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) has demanded the end of anonymity in Internet

They say it is to protect the kids, but likely it is to find out who watches La Liga without a premium subscription.

Isn’t that site the one the maintainer is known for altering pages or something?

Corruption hates archives.

I feel like archive.today is as important as webarchive is. Not only for uptime redundancy, but also redundancy in what they capture.

Does archive.is have problems? I tried this article with it and it didn't work:

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/burned-out-and...

Error: Invalid InterceptionId.

This and the soccer schedule internet blocking, the government just completely taken over by IP lobbyists?

File a complaint about chatgpt? I assume they’ve slurped up all of archive.org’s content

Guess my `archive.today` bookmarks are going to need a VPN now. So much for preserving web history without extra hoops.

Did they find a La Liga game on it or something?

Why does Cloudflare Warp block archive.today? Did they just get strong-armed by publishers or ISPs or some other reason?

That is stupid.

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State Capture.

Lies are for free, while the truth is behind paywalls. This is not going to end well.

Edit: why is it that Billionaires just fund fake news. Are there no "white hat" billionaires that could fund an opposition to that?

The full list of webs blocked by copyright issues can be downloaded from the web of the Spanish government here:

https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr:919c6bd2-17b2-43d1-98f5-d...

Guess I'll be spinning up my own proxy to access old links now. Good luck blocking the internet, Spain; that'll work.

Ahhh crap. I noticed that earlier today. Archive.today blocks some DNS providers like CloudFlare and I thought I had ended up on the wrong DNS again.

Time to fix that by running a real DNS and not just a forwarder though.

Edit: Hmm it seems like they are not just blocking at DNS level :(

Dictatorship.

It's quite interesting to see how all these fake-democracies resort to willy-nilly censosrhip. Usually USA under Trump is the biggest hypocrite, but it is amazing how many EU countries are not that much better really. We need a global colour-map based on objective factors with regards to censorship. And then we need to replace the lobbyists that act as decoy politicians establishing censorship such as the one shown here. That's clearly a corrupt clique working.

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I'd built something which can allow people to archive archive.is pages on archive.org.

https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/blog/htmlpipe-and-how-we-ca...

This could perhaps be used for this purpose.

I have submitted it on hackernews once again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773417

(Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574562)

This will not make the news in Norway even though it's much more egregious that just about everything Trump has done (not said, but done).

very socialist from them!

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No freesome presses anywhere

This is a welcome development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

Personally, I welcome this. Archive.today has been blocking my country from using the site for years and for no good reason. Maybe if enough countries block the site, someone more reasonable will build an alternative.