I don't find the "relevancy" distinction quite so clear, especially when you look into the actual complaints, which are arguably about suppressing past fraud to

I don't find the "relevancy" distinction quite so clear, especially when you look into the actual complaints, which are arguably about suppressing past fraud to increase access to credit. Regardless of relevancy, I don't believe any government has the authority to oblige me, a foreigner, to lie to its citizens when they ask me a question. (Especially when its domestic businesses, like the Spanish newspaper, are fully entitled to continue printing the truth? Only foreigners have to play dumb? That inconsistency suggests it's all just protectionism dressed up as a rights issue they aren't really committed to.) As to the "state" as an actor, I was just speaking in the broad governing sense of the word, as opposed to, say, financial power, or religious power. But the type of power isn't really relevant though, because muzzles aren't suddenly comfortable if applied by financiers or priests either.