Info at
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/03/22/feds-ordered-google-to-unmask-certain-youtube-users-critics-say-its-terrifying/?sh=220c40ba1ca7 In other news, a Spanish judge ordered telecoms to block Telegram. The news is not clear because media reports are written by people who have no clue what they are talking about and have not the minimum required level to do their jobs but, as far as I can gather,
1- some media creators claimed Telegram was being used to distribute information on where to get pirated content without paying,
2- Telegram has no business or presence in Spain
3- The judge claims he summoned Telegram but Telegram did not respond
4- so he is ordering Telegram be blocked.
Details are mostly missing and what is known is very sketchy but
1- this judge has a long history of being the clown and doing outrageous things
2- to properly serve a summons in a foreign country requires a process which as far as can be discerned has not been followed
3- the judge is conducting an investigation because in Spain that is the way it is done which is outrageous in itself. Judges should not be judging and investigating because they are things with contradictory objectives.
My opinion is that the judge is a clown who does not know the first thing about how the Internet works and that this is the equivalent of shutting down the highways because they are used to move stolen cars.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/23/spains-high-court-orders-block-on-telegram-messaging-app-as-a-precautionary-measureSpain's High Court orders block on Telegram messaging app as a precautionary measure
The ruling came after a complaint by media organisations that the platform was allowing its users to upload content without their permission.
Spaniards have been left without access to the instant messaging app Telegram, at least for the time being, after Spain's High Court ordered it to be blocked as a precautionary measure.
Judge Santiago Pedraz agreed to temporarily ban the platform after four of the country's main media groups - Mediaset, Atresmedia, Movistar and Egeda - complained that the app was disseminating content generated by them and protected by copyright without authorisation from the creators.
Access to the platform - which is the fourth most-used messaging service in the country - will be suspended from Monday but it was already being suppressed on certain mobile phone providers on Saturday.
The judge had asked the company that owns the application to send certain information in the framework of this case.
After Telegram did not respond to Pedraz's requests, he ordered it to be blocked.