Spaniard here. Google tax was just a ploy from our crony capitalist government to divert money towards publishers aligned with them (i.e. most major news outle

Spaniard here. Google tax was just a ploy from our crony capitalist government to divert money towards publishers aligned with them (i.e. most major news outlets). Actually, the publishers are the ones who promoted it (lobbying for it long before it was even a law proposal) and the government just followed its masters (the two large media groups who own mostly everything). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEDE > In response, Google announced that they would be shutting down the Spanish version of their Google News service. > > The AEDE reacted by lobbying the Spanish government to force Google to keep it running. It would be funny if it wasn't so worrying. __ Fortunately this just looks like public workers from AEPD (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Spanish Agency of Data Protection) doing their jobs. AEPD is one of the few public organizations I'm glad we have.