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If you know Spain, you know this makes total sense: - Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway. -
by artyom 6mo ago
If you know Spain, you know this makes total sense:
- Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway.
- There's a big intersection between "people that doesn't care about soccer" and "people that knows how to use a VPN"
- Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.
- There's not really huge internet companies there that can lobby the other way around (e.g. infrastructure collapse because of the block).
So in short, the ruling is incredibly stupid because they're allowed to do so, save for the vocal minority, the vast majority of the population doesn't care: they're watching the match.
- nubinetwork 6mo ago> they're watching the match Isn't that part of the problem? Foot egg is so ingrained into the countrymen that nothing else matters. There wouldn't be so much of a forced monopoly if more people would stop watching games and stand up to laliga.
- gravatron 6mo ago[flagged]
- nubinetwork 6mo agoComplaining on the internet every time laliga shuts down github etc isn't going to change anything, we can't solve your problems, the change has to come from within.
- artyom 6mo agoAnd that's how greed ends up destroying itself. They can easily get away with soccer because everyone is glued to the match. Tennis? Eh. Golf? No way.
- joquarky 6mo agoFoot egg? I thought we were talking about soccer.
- Hikikomori 6mo agoHand egg is the other.
- joquarky 6mo agoOh right
- iamtheworstdev 6mo agodid soccer balls change shape to warrant being compared to eggs?
- lucketone 6mo agoRugby?
- jimbokun 6mo agoOr maybe people just like watching football? I live in the US and just finished watching a recording of Atletico vs Barcelona in the Champions League and it was incredibly entertaining.
- sotix 6mo ago> Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours. That's exactly when I would want to work on a side project after my full time job. Seems really harmful if Spain wants to have the possibility of individuals with full time jobs developing ideas that can turn into startups that could become unicorns.
- Tabular-Iceberg 6mo agoThe purpose of a system is what it does. Another one that the Europeans like to this effect is unrealized capital gains tax, to make sure you never make it to the unicorn stage.
- hintymad 6mo ago> So in short, the ruling is incredibly stupid because they're allowed to do so, save for the vocal minority, the vast majority of the population doesn't care: they're watching the match. Is it actually worth fighting for principles to prevent slippery slopes? It seems most political battles in the US, especially the culture wars, are just about people's personal beliefs. It’s not that these issues affect them directly. It's they just want to make sure the other side doesn’t change their vision of the future.
- dieortin 6mo ago> Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway. This is completely false. In the first half of this LaLiga season, the most watched match had 3 million viewers: https://barloventocomunicacion.es/informes-barlovento/el-futbol-en-television-la-liga-de-las-audiencias https://barloventocomunicacion.es/informes-barlovento/el-fut... Spain has a population of almost 50M. So the most viewed match was around 6% of the population. I’m not sure what makes you think you “know Spain” enough to throw this kind of ridiculous claim around, but please inform yourself.