I’ve never said that protests are illegal, but the law certainly made them way riskier for protesters.

But yes, if they can only get age verification in place it will all devolve into a corporate fascist state…

The new normal seems to be that one could be fined 600 euro for insulting the police, or be sentenced to 2 years for disrupting a political event.

It’s called a slippery slope. You may want to look that up.

Regardless, we’ll never agree on this because you are one of the “I don’t have anything to hide” kind of people, a PADEFO, naive to a fault.

I’m a born and raised Spaniard who lived there for over 35 years, and was beaten up by cops at least once. I think I know a thing or two about the system.

You said that in Spain people have the right to protest freely against the government, yet the ley mordaza proves that’s not all true, e.g. https://www.es.amnesty.org/en-que-estamos/blog/historia/articulo/ley-mordaza/

But regardless of all that, there’s an even more solid proof that removing anonymity on the internet is a bad idea in the current Spanish climate: La Liga has been threatening individuals and companies for well over a year now, with the help of the courts and the inaction of the government. Somehow, they had access to internet users’ personal data, and have been sending out letters requesting payment for alleged “pirated content distribution and consumption”. They have pressured ISPs to throttle and even block entire blocks of IP addresses. They have sued people for libel because of insults towards their current president.

My point here is that, if a sports corporation could do that when people are still able to be “anonymous” online, how can you guarantee that Spain wouldn’t devolve into a full fledged corporate fascist state, where those with money have the effective power to target dissidents for the pettiest reason, if anonymity were to go away?

I don’t see you using your real name here.

A bit hypocritical if you ask me.

Spain literally has a law commonly known as “ley mordaza”, which enabled law enforcement to impose massive fines to protesters, some of whom ended up spending months in prison.

AI companies are selling that “coding has been largely solved”.

It seems that it hasn’t.

You would be surprised to know how many managers still rely on this metric, even if it’s not part of their KPIs.

The link you posted does not support your conclusion at all.

There have been rumors of Cook retiring for the past five years, at least, and I’m pretty sure that shareholders are quite happy with Apple market cap at almost $4 trillion.

It has nothing to do with AI.

AI is a non essential tool. Anything that a chatbot produces, can and should be achievable by a human with access to the same sources of information. Anyone hired to do a specialist job, who cannot perform without access to AI, should be summarily fired because their output would be indistinguishable from that of their LLM of choice.

In contrast, the Internet (as massive interconnected network), computers, even books, enable humans to deal with information in ways impossible to achieve without them, and help augment us. Reading feeds your brain. Computers are a window to creativity. AI does nothing of the sort, in fact I believe it does the opposite, pushing us to outsource our thinking processes while making us feel smart, undeservedly.