IPv6 is not widely deployed in Spain.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

Shhh. The lawyers barely know that ipv6 exists. They havent learned how to write out ipv6 addresses yet. Dont give them a reason to.

So that is why I don't get disconnected!!!

There's one recourse in the Constitutional Court driven by Clouflare and RootedCON but the thing about the Constitutional Court is that it can be very slow and it's heavily politicized and I'm not really sure the government position on this. Right now, only one leftist Catalan party has said anything against the blocks in the Congress. Also many mass media are not reporting this issues because they're also an interested party.

Freedom of speech, in the strong form that is most familiar in the US, is largely not a thing in other countries.

We have the freedom to say we're against it. The system is rotten to the core and run by people detached from reality.

So many people may not realize that this sort of thing has happened and does happen in the US.

Some may not know how large ISPs connect to each other. If you're sufficiently large, you basically get to peer for "free". There are common peering points where most of this happens. Now, how does traffic travel between ISPs? WWell, routing protocols (notably BGP4) dictate how these connetions are used.

Thing is, providers can directly and indirectly throttle traffic with all this. A famous example is where several US ISPs, notably Verizon FiOS (from my own experience) to Netflix. There was a time about a decade ago where in the evening you could get <500kbps and Netflix was unwatchable. Verizon alternated between denying it and saying it was a technical limitation.

But lo and behold if you just used a VPN to bypass Verizon's routing and peering Netflix was completely watchable.

Many believe (myself included) this was intentional to try and kill Netflix and prop up their declining cable TV business.

Why would they ever do that now that they have a captive audience? More likely it goes the other direction.

Football clubs have a billion eurodollar budget that they need to pay for. And how do they do that? With TV licensing.

I live in the Netherlands and everyone here has accepted that a Dutch club will never again get into a Championship League finale. Every Dutch star is playing in Spain or England.

If the experience is everything is blocked or everything is captcha hell, the latter still sounds like an improvement. I personally have no need for a VPN so I don’t know what the internet is like with one, but it does sound like without one the internet is essentially blocked.

The more widely used a VPN the more aggresively it's captcha’d, use a paid less known VPN and the experience improves dramatically

The games are presumably on the weekend. This is abou blocking streaming of games that are currently happening.

Matches are on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Sometimes on Mondays.

So, yes.