Spain’s government announced new legal measures aimed at holding technology executives criminally responsible for content posted on their platforms, prompting sharp criticism from commentator Mike Benz, who warned of potential constitutional and geopolitical consequences.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez outlined the policy changes in a public address.
“Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions. First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sides. This means that CEOs of these techno platforms will face criminal liability for failing to remove illegal or hateful content,” Sanchez said.
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Sanchez added that governments must take a more active role in addressing online speech.
“We governments need to stop turning a blind eye to the toxic content shared under the watch.”
He continued by describing additional steps his administration plans to take.
“…manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense. This information doesn’t appear by itself. It is created, promoted and spread by certain actors. We will go after them, as well as after the platforms whose algorithms amplify this information for profit. No more hiding behind code, no more pretending that technology is neutral.”
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Benz reacted strongly to the announcement, framing it as an unprecedented escalation.
“Controlling the algorithm, weapons of mass deletion, prosecutors making a criminal,” Benz said.
He later added: “Now I never use this word, but because the Europeans are fucking forcing me to do it, I feel an American duty to say it. That means, if you call someone a faggot and Elon leaves it down. You call someone a retard, and Elon doesn’t take it down. Elon gets hit with criminal penalties in Spain, sparking a constitutional crisis, a crisis of treaties about whether or not we even respect each other’s laws. Do we cooperate together in Interpol what happens to the entire relationship at that point.”
Benz questioned the language used by European leaders in describing online content.
“Listen to that. Do you think? You think Spain? How do you say toxic in Spanish? Toxic in Spanish, toxico. You think that’s like a native word in Spain? Toxic content that’s toxic. These concepts have all been mind virused into them through coordination meetings at the Atlanta Council, the Carnegie Endowment, the Wilson Center, the National Democratic Institute, Ned, US Embassy, disinformation conferences that are hosted in Spain. We’re gonna get to the whole history of all this in this stream, but I’m just kind of sketching out a universe. Let me, I’ll keep playing a little bit.”
Benz linked Spain’s move to broader political dynamics within the country.
“So understand a couple things. One that government doing this right now is losing power. They just sustained their second major loss in two months in SNAP regional elections. The country is turning far right. So when they say they’re going after hateful speech and disinformation, they’re talking about the Vox party, the right wing party. They’re talking about the right wing populace. In Spain, there’s a socialist government in power, the left wing socials, and they are rushing to flood the country with half a million new immigrants and criminalize any speech that criticizes immigrants, to try to get them all in so that they can out vote the population who wants right wing populist parties in 500,000 immigrants. Of course, nothing to see here. Spain’s mass regularization of 500,000 illegal immigrants is not extreme, unprecedented or opportunistic, just fucking self report. Why don’t you just everyone knows you inserted this word, editor, editor. We know what you did here. We know you wanted to cross out that that word, but then last but the editor stuck that in so the same thing is happening in France.”
He pointed to developments in France as well.
“Let me show you in France. France just voted to move forward a proposal to allow non French citizens to vote in their elections. What’s happening in France? The French Marine Le Pen’s party, the far right party in France is way up in the polls.”
Benz continued: “Remember, they arrested Marine Le Pen and banned her from running because she was up 11 points in the opinion polls last year, she was up 11 points in the early polling, so they arrested her and then banned her from running in the next election, so they’re gonna have to put up somebody else.”
He also criticized French political leadership.
“Macron, the fix a of Jeffrey Epstein, is now installing basically an economic minister that will that even if Marine Le Pen’s party wins, he will not be able to be voted out. That’s democracy, baby, sweet, succulent meal.”
Benz concluded by suggesting the issue carries international implications and limited opposition within government circles.
“And what I can say is that nobody currently is working on this. There’s one person, but that person, by themselves, is not going to have enough pull to do what needs to be done. That person is the wonderful Sarah Rogers.”
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