What do free speech have to do with a local government breaking laws? If the Catalan government proclaims next week the “independence” of their new republic (but maintaining the Spanish passports, of course), do you think the reaction from the Spanish government will also be an attack on their right to free speech?
> What do free speech have to do with a local government breaking laws?
Censorship is what it has to do with. The Spanish Government does not want the Catalan government to be able to organize people and thus has tried to remove the people's right to communicate with each other about it.
I was directly addressing the parent comment. It also addressed free speech.
> do you think the reaction from the Spanish government will also be an attack on their right to free speech?
It may be; that entirely depends on what the reaction is.
> The Spanish Government does not want the Catalan government to be able to organize people and thus has tried to remove the people's right to communicate with each other about it.
This has very little relation to the actual situation:
- The Catalan government, and anybody really, can organize people and the Central Government can't do anything about it.
- The Central Government, further, has nothing to do with the app that was banned from the Play Store. That's an order from a court in Catalonia.
- The banned app doesn't allow people to communicate with each other.
