Spain Notes, Sept 25: PP march + teen tech porn
1/ Commentators tried to spin the PP’s march in Madrid yesterday one way or the other. Supporters claimed more people and broader constitutional, civic or social success beyond the party political event it evidently was.
2/ “Mass backing” for the march now gives Feijóo “a frame of moral and political authority”, writes El Mundo. “[The march] on Sunday should not have been an ideological protest”, writes ABC: “but a plurality of voices in defence of the nation”. It was a protest against Sánchez and the amnesty, writes El País, but also “a group consolation ceremony” given the PP’s results at the general election and the likely failure of Feijóo to become PM this week.
3/ A poll in Vozpópuli reckons the PP and Vox would win a majority if the general election were repeated. Same story and numbers as most polls before the actual election in July, though. And that didn’t happen on the big day.
4/ The arithmetic is the arithmetic, the PSOE reminds viewers, and the PP has the same votes it had at the general election in July, “because their project only convinces the far-right”.
5/ The PP showed yesterday that “it has given up on the government” said Sumar’s Jaume Asens (who was with Yolanda Diaz and Puigdemont in Brussels the other week): “Yesterday was a demonstration of political impotence. Mr. Feijóo has failed as a candidate [for PM] and as leader of the PP”.
6/ El Diario wonders why a woman is being killed every four days in Spain and why only 14 out of 149 low emissions zones are working in Spain after €1.5 billion of European funding has been spent.
7/ The BBC reported on the teenage (and younger) lads in Almendralejo using AI to create deepfake porn photos of the girls. Other similar cases have now come to light in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, August) and Huelva (Andalusia, May).
8/ A more alarming case is being investigated by the Civil Guard in El Astillero (Cantabria): some other teenage schoolboys are involved in Whatsapp chat groups in which the lads shared “extreme, absolutely brutal” images of violent child and animal porn that they found on the Internet, and were also subject to grooming by anonymous adults and threats.
9/ In Palma (Balearic Islands), police arrested a teenager for hacking teachers’ passwords with a keylogger to get at upcoming exams on school computers. A teacher found the USB stick plugged into one machine. Teachers also noticed several pupils had done unusually well on those exams…
10/ The Eduaction Minister, Pilar Alegría (PSOE), said more responsible relationship education was needed for teenagers, and that it was useless to try to stop the technological changes that on the flip side provide many opportunities for youngsters.
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