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Yago M.-Abascal

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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
¡Hola! Where are you finding the official documentation? I'm only able to find the one hosted at judiciary.house.gov
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Spain's Internet Censorship Is a Cartel Enforcement Operation. futureherald.news/opinion/2026...
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Spain's Internet Censorship Is a Cartel Enforcement Operation. The Stock Market Knows.
Spain's courts let a soccer league boss block U.S. government websites, threaten gymnastics retailers, and criminalize the Cloudflare CEO — all to protect a telecom monopoly the market already rates a...
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Constitutional Court has not yet ruled on the admissibility (which is quite discretionary and subject to a very high standard). Some sources covering this scandal: reclaimthenet.org/laligas-anti... torrentfreak.com/laliga-disre... torrentfreak.com/end-game-twi... torrentfreak.com/laliga-cloud...
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
They cannot go to any lower court because they are 3p to the case that originated the (final) injunction which directly impacts them. They filed a motion for annulment because they believe they should have been a party to the case. Since it was denied, they are appealing to the Constitutional Court
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
La Liga relies on a court order obtained through a simulated lawsuit. The ISPs (defendants), which share the plaintiff's commercial interest as broadcasters of LaLiga matches, agree to honor the claims, leading the judge to approve the injunction without examination.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
… All without hearing the supposed offenders and without redress mechanisms for the innocent sites, services or end-users impacted. It's a procedural fraud. In collusion, they fabricated a dynamic, à la carte, injunction allowing ISP-block (many times entire shared IPs) without judicial oversight
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
La Liga + Telefónica rely on a court order obtained through a simulated lawsuit. The defendants, ISPs which share the plaintiffs’ common commercial interests as broadcasters, agree to honor the claims, leading the judge to approve the far-reaching remedies sought without examination.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I believe the situation in Spain is unprecedented. Overblocking has impacted a Royal Academy, government websites, media outlets, online platforms (X or GitHub), banks, blogs, payment gateways, residential home automation… Cloudflare and others filed an action before the Constitutional Court.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Not a single bill passes the filter… The European Commission considers that the draft bill on Sustainable Tourism in Andalusia is incompatible with the DSA technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu/en/notificat...
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We can also offer a service where it is possible to read books banned in US high schools and universities.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
No todos los concerns se publican en blogs. Hay otros foros e interlocutores. Si Google estuviera de acuerdo con cómo se aplica *toda* la DSA no necesitaría, por ejemplo, iniciar acciones legales combatiendo cómo se interpretan algunas de sus obligaciones: eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2...
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Que los códigos de conducta, los mecanismos de respuesta a las crisis o las evaluaciones de riegos sistémicos pueden suponer una injerencia desproporcionada en derechos fundamentales es una cuestión ya descrita constructivamente por doctrina muy autorizada: libertadinformacion.cc/wp-content/u...
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Sinceramente, no veo tan incompatible compartir los objetivos generales de la DSA con advertir, en un contexto muy diferente a un mero informe de transparencia, de posibles riesgos derivados de interpretaciones maximalistas de algunas obligaciones de diligencia debida.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
AI and Copyright: Hamburg Court of Appeal Rejects Appeal in LAION Case. Plain natural language reservation (opt-out) also found invalid grunecker.de/en/insights/...
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AI and Copyright: Hamburg Court of Appeal Rejects Appeal in LAION Case | Grünecker
In the proceeding brought by a photographer against LAION e.V., the Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs' appeal and confirmed the first-instance judgment of the Regional Court of Hamburg.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I am not sure. The territorial scope of the remedy might be different depending on the cause of action. The platform may strategically elect to rely upon the DSA, which guarantees due process, a degree of transparency, or robust redress mechanisms for their users.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In fact, wasn't Russmedia a removal request primarily based on defamation and the protection of one's image rights?
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Another operational challenge is determining the appropriate process for handling removal requests that allege multiple personality rights or causes of action, since these claims now appear to necessitate differing legal standards and follow different procedural requirements.
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edans @edans.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"The moral imperative for autonomous vehicles", my article on @medium.com medium.com/enrique-dans...
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The moral imperative for autonomous vehicles
The death toll on US roads each year is unacceptable for any developed country. The most recent preliminary estimates from the National…
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Please monitor carefully the comments your blog's visitors published, and also if the comments posted can be easily copied and distributed across third-party sites!
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"132. [...] Moreover, the obligation of the operator of an online marketplace to comply with the requirements arising from the GDPR cannot, in any event, be classified as such a general monitoring obligation."
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The European Commission finds that the draft of the Spanish Organic Law governing the right to rectification (aimed at regulating influencers on online platforms) is incompatible with EU law (country of origin principle and DSA) technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu/en/notificat...
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Notification Detail | TRIS - European Commission
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
El TEDH rechaza el derecho al olvido en internet sobre el pasado judicial de un empresario share.google/Ei45eIr10ZaM... hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
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El TEDH rechaza el derecho al olvido en internet sobre el pasado judicial de un empresario | CiberDerecho | LawAndTrends
Últimas noticias jurídicas y legales en LawAndTrends
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
ECtHR, De Pedro Guri vs Spain. Right to be forgotten. The applicant's right to private life is not violated by Courts' refusal to order Google to delist search results linking to publications about discontinued criminal proceedings✌️ hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
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HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights
The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...
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Javier de la Cueva @javierdelacueva.es · 18/09/2025
Civio pulls back the curtain on public algorithms: Spain’s Supreme Court orders the Government to release BOSCO’s source code vía @civio.es civio.es/novedades/20...
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Civio pulls back the curtain on public algorithms: Spain’s Supreme Court orders the Government to release BOSCO’s source code
The precedent-setting ruling states that public decision-making algorithms require transparency and oversight. The court rejects claims that national security or intellectual property can absolutely l...
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Me acabo de enterar. ¡Enhorabuena!
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
After a sweeping social media ban, Nepal saw its bloodiest unrest in decades. What has happened in Nepal is a warning to other democracies to tread carefully with efforts to contain online expression, writes Samik Kharel.
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Lessons from Nepal on the High Cost of Controlling Online Expression | TechPolicy.Press
The Nepalese government attempted to control the information ecosystem and lost control of the state itself, writes Samik Kharel.
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European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int · 08/07/2025
Judgment Google LLC and Others v. Russia - Judgments and fines against Google breached its free-expression rights hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=... #ECHRpress
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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🚀 We’ve joined Bluesky! Stay informed about key rulings, insights, and how #CJEU judgments shape #EUlaw and your daily life. Follow us and stay up to date! ⚖️🌍 #ECJ
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Spain's fight against the illegal streaming of football matches took a bizarre turn last night, as it led to the blocking of websites for at least 49 local governments and the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), a leading cultural institution. This is unacceptable!
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
LaLiga Blocks Cloudflare Again, New Pirate IPTV Providers & Anything in The Way torrentfreak.com/laliga-block... Cloudflare strikes back and launches legal action against LaLiga for their IP blocks. "They are clumsy and ineffective" 👌 www.xataka.com/empresas-y-e...
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Cloudflare inicia acciones legales contra LaLiga por sus bloqueos de IPs. Son "torpes e ineficaces"
La guerra abierta entre LaLiga y Cloudflare se recrudece. Desde principios de febrero LaLiga ha estado ordenando a las operadoras el bloqueo temporal de una...
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Fred von Lohmann @flohmann.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
First AI fair use ruling, but probably of little predictive value for the big pending genAI cases, as it involved an AI developer that copied Westlaw headnotes to train a legal research model to directly compete with Westlaw (at least that's how the court describes it).
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Judge Roy Ferguson @judgefergusontx.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
So wikitok is pretty neat. TikTok infinite scroll and content exploration meets Wikipedia. wikitok.net
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WikiTok
A TikTok style feed for random Wikipedia articles
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The bill wasn't notified to the EC, as required by Directive 2015/1535. Also, I think the obligation to channel rectification requests cannot be imposed on providers established in other Member States due to the ECD's country of origin principle, as interpreted by the CJEU in C-376/22 or C-662/22.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The new obligation for online platforms would be to put a mechanism for the "referral" of the rectification requests directed to users of special relevance and the "monitoring" of the process.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It allows for an alternative version of the facts to be disseminated as a "reply". In the event this right is denied by the publisher, a lawsuit can be filed and, ultimately, a judge can order the publication of the counter-narrative, but is not empowered to adjudicate the accuracy of either version
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The main change in the bill is that it extends the right of rectification beyond traditional media outlets to include "users of special relevance of online platforms and equivalent services". Note this right does not serve to verify the accuracy of certain statements.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@gateklons.bsky.social I've just come across this discussion on the Spanish bill to update the law on rectification, which allows individuals to reply to published information that (i) refers to them and (ii) they believe is inaccurate and potentially harmful.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I think it's a balanced and sophisticated opinion. Reconciling the ECD with the GDPR is not easy. The AG and the EC have openly challenged some of the referring court's assumptions, regarding the categorization of an intermediary as a data controller, rather than just a processor, concerning UGC.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@daphnek.bsky.social FYI: The Right Tools: Europe’s Intermediary Liability Laws and the EU 2016 General Data Protection Regulation is referenced in paragraphs 155 and 162 of AG Spuznar's opinion in Russmedia Digital curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
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CURIA - Documents
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
AG Spuznar's opinion in Russmedia Digital is out and appears balanced curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
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michael veale @michae.lv · 02/02/2025
From today, the prohibited practices/AI systems in the AI Act enter force. It becomes illegal to use or market, broadly (and loosely): - intentionally v manipulative systems likely to cause someone harm - social scoring that leads to disproportionate consequences/consequences in an unrelated sector
CHAPTER II
PROHIBITED AI PRACTICES
Article 5
Prohibited Al practices
1. The following Al practices shall be prohibited:
(a) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of an Al system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person's consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques, with the objective, or the effect of materially distorting the behaviour of a person or a group of persons by appreciably impairing their ability to make an informed decision, thereby causing them to take a decision that they would not have otherwise taken in a manner that causes or is reasonably likely to cause that person, another person or group of persons significant harm;
b) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of an Al system that exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a natural person or a specific group of persons due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation, with the objective, or the effect, of materially distorting the behaviour of that person or a person belonging to that group in a manner that causes or is reasonably likely to cause that person or another person significant harm;
(e) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of Al systems for the evaluation or classification of natural persons or groups of persons over a certain period of time based on their social behaviour or known, inferred or predicted personal or personality characteristics, with the social score leading to either or both of the following: (detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or groups of persons in social contexts that are unrelated to the contexts in which the data was originally generated or collected;
(i detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or groups of persons that is unjustified or disproportionate to their social behaviour or its gravity;
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I'm looking for a way to refresh my feed in Bluesky app without losing my reading position. I prefer to read from bottom to top, and I'd like to continue reading where I left off after swiping down to refresh.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
On the other hand, bad actors can be very sophisticated (e.g., cloaking) support.google.com/adspolicy/an...
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Abusing the ad network - Advertising Policies Help
Google provides translated versions of our Help Center, though they are not meant to change the content of our policies. The English version is the official language we use to enforce our poli
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Does the platform have an ongoing obligation to conduct comprehensive and perpetual due diligence on linked websites? Should the platform have to do a general fact-finding assessment over third party websites perpetually?
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Advertisers may promote websites without a direct association (e.g., promoting a favored NGO's website). Furthermore, linked websites are dynamic and can evolve from neutral to harmful.
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I agree that the incident is unacceptable, and there's always room for improvement but don't you think that Article 8 DSA prohibition on general monitoring obligations could be relevant here?
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Out of control. He is acting like a little kid in a sugar rush. Are we sure he doesn't have a Neuralink prototype already implanted?
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The 24-hour timeframe is for reviewing the reported content, not necessarily for removing it ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Commission welcomes the integration of the revised Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online into the Digital Services Act
The Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcome the integration of the revised ‘Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online +' into the framework of the Digital Service...
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Yago M.-Abascal @yagoabascal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Where are the fact-checkers when you need them?!
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