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No joke: Spanish prime minister's party suggests ban on internet memes
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Credit: REUTERS/Susana Vera
10 November 2016 • 3:40pm
Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP) has presented a reform proposal to Congress that could result in the banning of memes, social network users’ way of gaining comic revenge on the politicians that rule our lives.

The reform wishes to curb the “spreading of images that infringe the honour of a person”, making special mention of the fact that Spain’s 1982 law covering this area is outdated due to the subsequent appearance of the internet.

But campaigners for free speech see the proposal as an attack against the sometimes irreverent humour and political expression in memes, many of which have poked fun at the PP’s leader and conservative prime minister, Mariano Rajoy.
“We are worried about this reform because internet does not require special laws; the same rights and duties should exist online as offline,” Spain’s Platform for the Defence of Freedom of Information said.

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The PDLI’s legal director, Carlos Sánchez Almeida, said that the reform appeared designed to “censor memes”.

“If the plan is to clamp down on any publication of images without consent of the individual, the popular activity of using memes to generate political or social criticism would become dangerous.”

Sources from the PP haves said that the proposal is merely an idea at this stage, and deny any desire to clamp down on memes that are not “insulting, involve death threats or accuse a person of committing a crime”.

The proposal comes a year after the introduction of the controversial citizens’ safety law, popularly known as the “gag law”, which limits people’s right to demonstrate and has seen individuals fined for criticising Spanish authorities on social networks.

The PP used its once-comfortable parliamentary majority to steamroller through the gag law, something it could not do now after elections last December and in June failed to produce a clear result.

Mr Rajoy was finally given the confidence of Congress to form a new government last month after the main opposition Socialist party abstained to allow the PP to rule, albeit in a minority.

Recently, a Madrid regional MP was caught making a meme of on his laptop leader during a debate.

Socialist Juan José Moreno was photographed converting PP regional premier Cristina Cifuentes into Dirty Harry, “a joke” for which he later apologised.

So far the only impact of the reform proposal is to have sparked a fresh wave of memes aimed at Mr Rajoy and the PP government, with dozens of social network users posting new gags accompanied by the hashtag #SinMemesNoHayDemocracia - no democracy without memes.
 
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Donald Trump: en Europa y, especialmente, en España 'te dan todo (inmuebles) por nada'

El magnate estadounidense Donald Trump, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo, ha asegurado que hay "muchas y buenas oportunidades" para adquirir propiedades en Europa, especialmente en España, donde es el momento de "aprovecharse".

"Te están dando las tierras por nada, te lo están dando todo por nada (...). Vas a tener que quedarte con ello durante un tiempo, pero hay muchas buenas oportunidades en Europa, no hay duda", ha afirmado en declaraciones a la cadena de televisión estadounidense CNBC.

Al referirse a España, Trump ha apuntado que es un país "increíble", pero que cómo "está enfermo, es el momento de aprovecharse de ello".

Tras vaticinar que "muchos países" de la zona euro "volverán a sus propias monedas", el magnate cree que la delicada situación que padece el Viejo Continente es una oportunidad para comprar inmuebles a precios bajos y él mismo está estudiando poner en marcha algún negocio al otro lado del Atlántico.

"De hecho, estoy mirando algo -es tan ridículo, es irrisorio-, y estoy pensando hacer algo allí con un grupo que es muy inteligente y francamente hay una oportunidad", ha indicado Trump, quien se coloca en el puesto 401 de la lista de hombres más ricos del mundo que elabora la revista Forbes con una fortuna de 2.900 millones de dólares.

El empresario, que llegó a sopesar una candidatura para las elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de este año 2012, agrega que si algún país acabara dejando la Eurozona, "el mundo continuará". "¿Nos afectará a nosotros? Probablemente, pero no creo que vaya a ser tan malo como la gente está diciendo", concluyó.

Trump es presidente de la Organización Trump, que cuenta con un amplio número de hoteles, campos de golf y centros residenciales en ciudades como Nueva York, Chicago o Las Vegas y además de en varios países por todo el mundo.
 
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