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1/ Britain, watch Spain.
Sánchez is building a speech-control machine and selling it as “online safety”.
Spain is the warning label for the UK. 🧵👇
2/ The pitch sounds nice: “protect children”, “stop hate”, “tackle disinformation".

The reality is always the same: more state power, less free speech.
3/ The direction of travel:
🔒 under-16 social media bans
🪪 “real” age verification and digital ID
⚖️ penalties tied to what algorithms amplify

This isn’t a tweak, it’s infrastructure.
4/ Translation: once you build identity gates for speech, you don’t get to pretend it’ll stay “just for kids”.
Systems expand. Definitions widen. Enforcement hardens.
5/ And once you attach criminal risk to “harmful” content and algorithms, platforms will do one thing:
delete first, ask questions never.

That’s how lawful criticism gets chilled.
6/ Spain matters because the regime-class always reacts the same way when it’s under pressure:
control the narrative, control the gatekeepers, control the public square.
7/ So what was the CORRUPTO banner?
A giant banner hung opposite Spain’s Congress showing Pedro Sánchez’s face with one word: CORRUPTO.
A message ordinary people understood in one second. Image
8/ Why did it spread?
Because it gave citizens a simple phrase for what they were already thinking, and it travelled from street-level conversations to national headlines.
9/ And what happened next is the point: it was removed by court order after a complaint.
In other words, the system moved to make a message disappear.
10/ Then came the “El Capo” bus, a campaign bus branded with Sánchez as “El Capo”(the Mafia leader), mocking the cronyism and corruption of his wife and associates, taking the message through Spain’s streets where the public couldn't miss it. Image
11/ Why do our buses, not only in Spain, but across the world, work?

Because they say what millions think, while the political class hides behind committees, inquiries and word-games. Image
12/ Starmer’s Labour isn’t a bulwark against Sánchez-style politics, it’s the same family.

They’ve met, signed a bilateral framework, and Sánchez’s side literally says they’re “aligned on many policies.”
13/ And here’s the link: @hazteoir Oír is part of the same wider movement as @CitizenGO , ordinary citizens organising across borders to push back when governments, NGOs and media try to police debate and punish dissent.
14/ That’s why they hate us. Not because we’re “far right”, but because we don’t accept the progressive gatekeepers’ rulebook: say the approved words, fund the approved causes, shut up when told.

Labels are how they try to shut people down, without debating.
15/ We’re not extremists. We’re citizens who won’t be bullied into silence: on free speech, family, faith, sovereignty, and the right to disagree.
16/ If you want more of this: follow.

If you want to help us keep fighting back, support CitizenGO / Hazte Oír follow our work and share this thread. When they try to silence us, it’s because it’s working.

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