Ask HN: What can I do to fight internet censorship in Spain as a non-EU citizen?
2 PutaXavier 2 8/23/2025, 6:07:31 PM
Thanks to a recent court order [1], and in an effort to "prevent piracy", La Liga (the Spanish football league) has ordered major ISPs in Spain to block access to IP ranges belonging to CDNs during football events. [2]
Since this measure is imposed on ISPs by court order, I understand that complaining to them as an ordinary customer would be ineffective. As a non-EU citizen, is there anything I can do to push back against this kind of restriction on internet freedom?
Currently I've configured my home router to use mosdns [3] to rewrite DNS answers in the Cloudflare IP ranges to known-good addresses (e.g., chatgpt.com, medium.com). This works for now but will eventually be defeated by SNI-based blocking, which some ISPs are already doing.
[1]: https://vercel.com/blog/update-on-spain-and-laliga-blocks-of-the-internet [2]: https://hayahora.futbol/ [3]: https://github.com/IrineSistiana/mosdns
I would go further. I dont think Spain is going to collapse anymore. The previous administrations nearly ran it into the ground, and there's repairs ongoing. Back in 2019-2021, oh man Spain was looking like goners.