is curious contents of the last cable referenced in the list of Wikileaks from those issued by the U.S. embassy in Madrid. It concerns a meeting between Ambassador Solomont and Culture Minister González Sinde held in February this year.
Specifically, among other issues, the ambassador asked the minister what he thought to the English government to block "pirate sites." It is what they are trying to do just now with all the information released by Wikileaks.
(...) Solomont Ambassador Said I Had Heard a great deal about Spain's Internet piracy problem, MPAA CEO from Glickman and others, and Things WHERE Asked stand with the Government's Legislative Proposal (ref B) on shutting down or blocking pirate websites. Minister Gonzalez-Sinde replied that everything the government tries to do in this area is big news, since attempts to regulate Internet activity are of intense interest to young people, the media, and companies like Google. The government's proposal, she said, is quite reasonable and even modest. The government has pledged not to move aggressively against citizens and individual users as
has been proposed in France and the UK, but its initiative is nonetheless controversial. Many politicians, she averred, have little information or understanding of the issue. Even those who recognize the damage that Internet piracy does to cultural industries have not been helpful.(...)
I ask myself: how a English minister accepts that the ambassador of another country was questioned about the intentions of your government?
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