Operation Araña

Operation Araña (Spanish: Operación Araña) is the codename given to the 2014-17 Civil Guard operation in Spain against the defense of terrorism on social media, mainly on Facebook and Twitter. The name Araña means Spider. Until now, it has consisted on four phases:

Criticism

Since its start, the operation has been heavily criticised. Amnesty International, on their 2016-2017 report, mentioned the operation among the cases of unjustified restrictions of freedom of information, speech and assembly in relation with the recent reform of the Spanish Criminal Code and the 2015 Enforcement of Citizen Security Spanish Law.[7] In January 2017, Def Con Dos rap rock band member and spokesperson César Strawberry was sentenced to one year on prison because of a series of tweets related to ETA and GRAPO.[8] In March 2017, a 21-year-old student was sentenced to one year of prison, due to a series of jokes about the assassination of francoist Prime minister Carrero Blanco.[9] Both sentences generated criticism and raised a debate about freedom of speech and social media.

gollark: You should not, in fact, be trusting said giant profit-maximizing entity and every future version of it and everywhere they might be sending all the data.
gollark: And they probably can make money off it.
gollark: Your argument seems to just be "I totally trust this giant profit-maximizing entity composed of thousands of people and also everyone associated with it and everyone who might be associated with it in the future".
gollark: No, you're insufficiently paranoid.
gollark: If you're a political activist or something, they can dredge up old data to discredit you.

References
  1. "21 detenidos por enaltecimiento del terrorismo a través de Internet". El País (in Spanish). 2014-04-28.
  2. "19 detenidos por apología del terrorismo en las redes sociales". El País (in Spanish). 2014-10-06.
  3. "Detenido el líder del grupo Def con Dos por enaltecimiento del terrorismo". El País (in Spanish). 2015-05-19.
  4. "Alfredo Remírez, primer tuitero de las 'Operaciones Araña' contra el enaltecimiento terrorista que va a prisión". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 2017-11-01.
  5. "Nueva operación contra el enaltecimiento del terrorismo en las redes". El País (in Spanish). 2016-04-13.
  6. "Detienen a siete personas por enaltecimiento del terrorismo en redes sociales". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 2016-04-13.
  7. "Informe 2016/17 Aministía Internacional: La situación de los Derechos Humanos en el mundo". Amnesty International (in Spanish). 2017-02-22.
  8. "El Supremo condena a César Strawberry a un año de cárcel por sus tuits". Eldiario.es (in Spanish). 2017-01-19.
  9. "Jail for a joke: student's case puts free speech under spotlight in Spain". The Guardian. 2017-04-18.
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