Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
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Spain blocked Archive.today domains without a court ruling, via the Intellectual Property Commission.
Spain's Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission ordered ISPs to block Archive.today domains. Users see a government page accusing them of facilitating illegal access to copyrighted content. No court order was required. The block stems from a complaint processed through a censorship protocol built for speed.
What commenters are saying
Commenters find irony in archiving an article about censorship of an archive site. Some in Spain report the block is not enforced by all ISPs yet. A debate emerges over archive.is reliability and trustworthiness, with some warning it is part of a DDOS network and an intelligence operation, while others rely on it to bypass paywalls. Enforcement methods include SNI filtering, DNS manipulation, and HTTPS interception.