Yeah I had a look as well in the imagery but hard to decide if it would ve visable, at least a shadow!

Lets hope someone visits the area!

Looks really cool. I can't find it on modern satellite imagery (it looks big enough to be a noticeable white smudge) so I'm assuming no, but I could be wrong of course.

France and Spain here showing the world how to get things done.

Interestingly, the top 3 countries by signatures are as follows

1. France - 420000
2. Italy - 258000
3. Spain - 138000

And by threshold percentages (which I assume are a proxy for percentages of overall population):

1. France - 754%
2. Italy - 482%
3. Spain - 332%

I would've expected Spain and Ireland to be on top for at least the latter one, interesting why they're not

"Spain will ask the European Union to end its association agreement with Israel over alleged violations of international law"

Even if the EU argue that international law is only allegedly violated, then they MUST at least consider an investigation. My view however is that the evidence couldn't be more clear.

There's a European Citizens Initiative for that! If you're an EU citizen, do consider signing.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public

It still needs more signatures. Usually only ~80-90% turn out to be valid, so at least 1.3M are needed, and organizers are aiming for 1.5M. Please sign if you are able! Even if it doesn't lead to material outcomes, it is still a major show of support for the palestinian cause

Here in Europe I’ve never had the feeling the government was wiretapping my phone?

It’s the other way around, 20,30 years ago it didn’t need any explanation to keep hard porn or people being shot in the face out of the reach of minors. Nowadays kids share gruesome videos from the Ukraine battlefield and porn with one another, a whole generation is growing up that thinks strangulation during sex is “quite ok”. And it is platforms like these that constantly try and cross the borders. Sorry lads, if you think protection of minors from this kind of material is censure or old-fashioned, grow up, inform yourself where censure starts and protection of families and kids ends and most of all: DONT get kids. If you think telegram or twitter or Facebook are in business to improve our lives, or to protect us from censure, you obviously have no clue.

I'm using Lemmy, and since I highly doubt the admins will implement the age control thing, the new laws will make it pretty much illegal. So, either:

• They ban it and everyone has to start using a vpn/tor to access it (which would spread the word about it, and many kids would also do it with facebook or twitter or tiktok).
• Or they don't bother about small platforms, in which case kids will flock to those smaller platforms, which now have no incentive at all to care about legality of their content. Congrats, it's worse now.

Requiring easier to use parental controls on phones and tablets is the actual way forward. Maybe they could publish a regularly updated list of what they consider "social media not suitable for kids" and make it the default blocklist when activating parental controls on any device.

I'm also not against regulations that punish platforms for knowingly hosting misinformation, spying on users, or other dark patterns. But a ban on social media which doesn't do age checks will not achieve any of that, it has the opposite effect.

You don’t have kids obviously.

So basically Spain hates free speech.

ESH

Fuck Durov, his ancap ideology, and his lies about Telegram being "anonymous", but also it's dumb to try replacing parental responsibility with an outright social media ban.