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Daniel García
Personal blog · daniel.es/blogpoliticsweb
Daniel García's personal blog at daniel.es covers politics and web. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Football, Power, and Censorship: How La Liga Broke the Spanish Internet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel García's blog for its English-language account of Cloudflare being blocked in Spain during football anti-piracy enforcement, including a timeline of events.
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Personal Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Football, Power, and Censorship: How La Liga Broke the Spanish Internet4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-12
What Hacker News says?
Oh yeah: If you host behind Cloudflare, you can basically expect your site/service is inaccessible by all of Spain every weekend or so: the government there decided to just completely cut off Cloudflare to stop illegal sports streaming sites. A couple posts about this: https://daniel.es/blog/cloudflare-vs-la-liga/ https://harro.com/2025/06/06/is-blanket-ip-blocking-justifie... https://cybersecurityadvisors.network/2…
Comment linking /blog/cloudflare-vs-la-liga/
on “Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to”Submitted Football, Power, and Censorship: How La Liga Broke the Spanish Internet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a good English-language article about it, with a timeline: https://daniel.es/blog/cloudflare-vs-la-liga/ Looks like same old regulatory capture.
Comment linking /blog/cloudflare-vs-la-liga/
on “Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block”Submitted La Liga vs. Cloudflare war and what you can do about it as a story · 3 points
HN discussion