If you know Spain, you know this makes total sense:

- Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway.

- There's a big intersection between "people that doesn't care about soccer" and "people that knows how to use a VPN"

- Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.

- There's not really huge internet companies there that can lobby the other way around (e.g. infrastructure collapse because of the block).

So in short, the ruling is incredibly stupid because they're allowed to do so, save for the vocal minority, the vast majority of the population doesn't care: they're watching the match.

> Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.

That's exactly when I would want to work on a side project after my full time job. Seems really harmful if Spain wants to have the possibility of individuals with full time jobs developing ideas that can turn into startups that could become unicorns.

> So in short, the ruling is incredibly stupid because they're allowed to do so, save for the vocal minority, the vast majority of the population doesn't care: they're watching the match.

Is it actually worth fighting for principles to prevent slippery slopes? It seems most political battles in the US, especially the culture wars, are just about people's personal beliefs. It’s not that these issues affect them directly. It's they just want to make sure the other side doesn’t change their vision of the future.

> they're watching the match

Isn't that part of the problem? Foot egg is so ingrained into the countrymen that nothing else matters.

There wouldn't be so much of a forced monopoly if more people would stop watching games and stand up to laliga.