It happened in the first days of December. Everybody who tried to connect to Blogger from Galician universities couldn’t do it. In the beginning we thought about some rare Google trouble. But the reality was very different: CESGA (Galician Supercomputation Center), who are in charge of opening to the Galician universities to the Internet, was blocking every web connection to Blogger. Why?

Since some years ago, in Spain we’re living with a sword over our heads because two laws about digital world rights: the LSSI aproved by right wing Partido Popular (PP), and “LSSI’s 2.0″ , LISI, aproved by left wing Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) last December, 20th. LSSI was the first step to control Internet operations in Spain. LISI reinforces this control and gives the chance to shutdown webs and another Internet services by administrative organizations even without court sentence.

Ok, what happened with Blogger? Some blogs hosted in Blogger encouraged to boycott Catalonian products because great part of Catalonians try to separate from Spain (in the same way I encourage to boycott Canadian products because they allow seal slaughters in this blog). So a court ordered a lien shutting down those blogs. As the blogs are hosted out of Spain, the next step was to block those webs. And, as CESGA could not block only that blogs, they decided to block all Blogger.

The wall was closed around a week. Those days were the wildest censorship case in the the history of the current democracy in Spain. And sadly, it is only the beginning.

Few webs and press published about the incident:

• Hazteoir.org(Spanish):“El centro de Supercomputación de la Junta de Galicia cierra el acceso a los blogs de Blogger”
• Libertad Digital (Spanish):“El centro de Supercomputación de la Xunta cierra el acceso a los blogs de Blogger”
• Vieiros (Galician): “Os universitarios galegos quedan sen acceso a Blogger”