You need a bit of feedback for this. There is a big amount of people in Cataluña that doesn't want the independence. There is people who wants a completely independence and doesn't understand the consecuences. And there is a lot of corrupted politics that wants only a partial independence to be avoid judge by the law.
I post a video in my first comment, take a look. It is nothing to be like what happens in China or Venezuela, the comparison is a non-sense.
EDIT: I forgot the people who want to use it as distraction to avoid talking about their corruption and other issues.
What a patronising comment. You describe four groups and why they are all wrong. Have you not considered that there might be people who want complete independence and _do_ understand the consequences? And that your “we know best” attitude might be feeding that?
The biggest issue is that we never had an open debate. When the first politics asked to be independent they wanted to be an associate state, so not really independent. Now politics say they want to be completely independent but at the same time they assume they will be in the European Union and Barcelona will still play in the Spanish League. So the group you are talking about is really a minority, they are different groups depends on the type of independence they have in mind. They don't fight against theirselves because the central government close any possible debate and blame all the independents the same way. (even all catalans)
Why wouldn't Barcelona continue to play in the Spanish League? Swansea (Welsh) currently play in the English Premier League (as did Cardiff City until they were relegated). Monaco play in the French league, San Marino in the Italian, there's a German team that plays in the Swiss leagues and an Austrian team that plays in the German league... Europe is a curious patchwork of teams playing in other countries...
The political video that you posted (only in spanish, and from 2015) is not very helpful, nor related to the current topic (the removal of an app from google due to the pressure of a government in a desperate crisis).
I always wanted to understand what type of independence do you want exactly. Could you give me your opinion? Between a completely independent state as if Cataluña had a cristal bubble around it and nothing can enter or leave it, and the current sittuation, how much independent Cataluña wants to be? I heard some people wants to be an associate State to Spain and others to be a completely separate state (which means things like enter again the european union)
The Spanish government hasn't pressured Google. A Catalan judge has given them a court order, and they are required by law to comply, like anybody else.
Is it form 2015? I though it was from this month. Anyway it was for background of the topic.
I just realized you might be Catalan. Don't get me wrong, I think people should have the right to decide by themselves, but you have to tell them the truth of what will happen and have an open dialog. Not what we are doing now on both sides of the problem.
Comparing Cataluña with Venezuela or China is a non-sense. Although we might end up as Venezuela (lot of corruption everywhere, poor people, etc), I think we are still far from it. The law has been like this since decades, and no one did nothing to change it, even the catalans.
I post a video in my first comment, take a look. It is nothing to be like what happens in China or Venezuela, the comparison is a non-sense.
EDIT: I forgot the people who want to use it as distraction to avoid talking about their corruption and other issues.