The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has defended that “the strength of the State is there to protect” democracies “from the attacks they suffer” and also “to our children from that toxic universeunpunished, which social networks have unfortunately become.” “They are not going to break us because the voice of democracy will not be subdued by those technoligarchs of the algorithm,” he assured.
Sanchez, during the closing of the VIII National Industry Congress at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, referred, in this way, to Pavel Durov, co-founder of the social network Telegram, who this past Wednesday criticized him for announcing that he will prohibit social networks for those under 16 years of age and, in a massive message on this social network, warned users that the regulations that the Government of Spain intends to promote “they threaten” their “freedoms on the internet” and it is intended to turn the country “into a surveillance state under the pretext of protection.” For his part, the owner of X, Elon Musk, called the president of the Spanish Government a “fascist.”
“The strength of the state is there to protect”
For his part, Pedro Sánchez responded on the social network It is a sign that we ride.”
The President of the Government has taken advantage of his intervention in the National Industry Congress to insist on this issue and defend that “the force of the State is there to protect” to democracies “from the attacks they suffer and the challenges they face.
“It is there to protect our sons and daughters from that toxic universeunpunished, which social networks have unfortunately become. “What I have called a failed state,” he asserted.
After lamenting that “there are those who say that regulating is controlling, that doing politics is tyranny, that “setting rules limits innovation”has said that “the key questions are almost never asked.”
“Why do we want this innovation? To expand rights or to put those rights at risk? To strengthen democracy Or to erode it? To improve people’s lives or so that a few can make money? Do we want a technology that normalizes and amplifies deception? That converts privacy into a commodity? A society in which a technoligarch can get into, as they did yesterday into mobile phones, millions of citizens to tell them lies?” he asked.
The President of the Government has said bluntly that “the answer has to be a clear no.” “They are not going to break usbecause the voice of reason of the social majority and of democracy is not going to be subdued by those technoligarchs of the algorithm,” he stressed.